Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed to have almost no private life. Said one of his friends: "If you saw a man sitting in the sun at a cafe with his legs sprawled out, drinking wine and reading La Croix, it could not be anyone but Bidault...
With mounting amazement, the anthropologists drove through the silent streets between crumbling mosques, forts and palaces. They found no footprints, no campfire ashes, no signs that modern men had ever entered the place. The only living creature they saw was a desert viper...
After the breakup of the stage & screen team of the Marx Brothers (The Coconuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera), Groucho was on & off radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
...Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres said there had been a security panic, with no economic basis. Banker Lament pronounced it only "a little distress selling." The National City Bank's Charles E. Mitchell saw "nothing fundamentally wrong with the stock market...