Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the first ground troops arrived by sea on the west shore, made a de luxe landing. They not only found planes of their own Balkan Air Force operating from airfields ahead of them; they also found supplies and fuel neatly arranged in dumps and not a German in sight. Said one officer: "When those fellows got off the boat on D-day they even had mail waiting for them. . . . The only casualty in the whole operation...
...apparently was the hotel manager. He then proceeded to tell my friend and I that he couldn't expect much more than this from the Navy and that this was a typical gesture of gratitude by the armed services. He then threatened to call the shore patrol...
...shore patrol came, and escorted the two officers out. One of the attackers stopped him, Lieut. Dickins said, told him he had "beaten up a personal friend of the President," said that "severe punishment" would follow...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
This month Pavot will retire to the same 1,650-acre farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore where War Admiral prepped for his 1937 Derby victory. He should add 150 lbs. to his big frame while being winter-trained on mild workouts and gallops. Meanwhile bespectacled Oscar White, his trainer, isn't worried about the Futurity-Derby bugaboo and doesn't think Pavot...