Word: soda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...
...cast that acts out the story is just about right. Dana Andrews is a bombardier captain who has lost his taste for both his soda-jerking job and his pretty, addle-pated wife (Virginia Mayo). Fredric March, after a stretch as a middle-aged infantry sergeant, now sees his stuffy bank job in a new perspective. Made shy by a long-deferred reunion with his wife (Myrna Loy) and grown-up daughter (Teresa Wright), March goes on one of the funniest benders ever filmed...
Meantime, Caracas boomed. Attention turned from the old pursuits of the soil to the speculations encouraged by the country's 1,000,000-barrel-a-day oil industry. Caraqueñas feverishly built houses, streets, schools, soda fountains, bars, movies, hotels...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Father was a soft touch. Every day Helen lined up her schoolmates at his soda fountain. Helen was rationed to two sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from...
...Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd Street for a 10? Wild West movie, stopping for a hamburger...