Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these there is only boredom, comparable, in a way, to watching an army training film. "Peter and the Wolf" was obviously aimed at the children's trade and has no appeal for adults. "Two Silhouettes" features a sickening ballet to the accompaniment of the equally sickening singing of Dinah Shore. Andy Russell's singing will probably not even get a rise out of the bobby soxers, while the Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" would have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have...
...still the canoe was carried along by the winds and current. And then one day Nabetari was blown onto the shore of a strange island called Ninigo, about 140 miles north of New Guinea and 1,800 miles away from Banaba. It was then November, so Nabetari had been at sea in his canoe for seven months without seeing land. Perhaps nobody in the world has been at sea so long in a canoe before, or traveled...
Died. Joseph Catalanotti, 59, a founder and vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; of a heart attack, five days after his longtime friend and associate, Amalgamated President Sidney Hillman, died at the same age of the same ailment; in Bay Shore...
...sharp wind roughed up the lake as eight shells pulled away. The Husky crew jumped into an early lead, stayed there until the three-quarters mark. Then Cornell, in the sheltered No.1 lane toward shore, stepped up its beat to 37. Ten powerful strokes pulled the Cornell shell into command; it held the lead against M.I.T.'s finish-line sprint. Washington's Huskies came in third. Wisconsin's heretics also...
...remarkable, was the Little Review, founded in Chicago in 1914 by a woman of even greater vim. Margaret Anderson wanted to fill it with "the best conversation the world has to offer," and for some years she pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...