Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...
About Enough. A Grand Island, Neb. sailor wrote home from overseas: "We asked the censor and he said it was all right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...
...Origin of Specie. In Bath, Me., in 1857, Sailor Samuel Francis deposited $150 in a bank. Last week his heirs received the original sum plus interest...
...News had not come to him of his girl's marriage to a merchant sailor...
...Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...