Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy. In Joliet, 111., Beekeeper Helge Johnson was ordered by the city to round up every one of his little charges or risk being fined $10 for each stray. With three days to avoid a possible $4,000,000 fine, Beekeeper Johnson got busier than any of his 400,000 bees...
...theater was not yet ready for tragedy, it was no longer battening on trash. Where a stray School for Brides ground out a living from the sidewalk trade, a dozen other smutlings, including Chicago's record-breaking Good Night Ladies, starved in short order. Most of the smash hits were mere entertainment, but entertainment with some freshness and taste. There were no electrifying experiments during the season, but a good many successes - the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Harvey, the Critics' Circle Prize-winning Glass Menagerie, I Remember Mama, Anna Lucasta, Dark of the Moon - had more than a touch...
...Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...Boswell: "I had to confess that I hadn't even peered at the Management; I gaped in amazement when called on in Procurement; I stumbled through a weak excuse in Man. Cost but when the other 69 men in the Company, a dog and three stray field mice came up to my room that night to seek advice that was too much. However, I'm not narrow minded; the other boys got a laugh out of my anties, so why shouldn't I go through with the show...
William S. Hart, hard-riding hero of the silent horse operas, who last month gave $50,000 for a park and museum in Hollywood, shelled out another $100,000-to the Connecticut Humane Society for a memorial to his sister: a shelter for stray dogs and cats in Westport, Conn...