Word: taine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women of all classes are welcome, sits nowadays clicking her needles benignly amid an assortment of serving maids, duchesses, peasants' wives, princesses, cooks...
Orson Welles (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS), No. 1 U. S. Bogeyman, as radiominous Cap tain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...visitors earned their 19 to 9 edge at half-time because the Feslermen were sloppy in their defensive efforts. Cap- tain Lupe Lupien and Sam White stiffened that defense and held the surprised Buskies to a mere seven points for the whole second half. They had an able partner in that work in the person of Sophomore Homer Peabody who fought for the ball every second of the game...
Afore you was dry behind the ears I'd been stirrin apple butter nigh unto forty years. You aint got no call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write...
Seaboard's cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand...