Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caumsett Spitfire was dying of pneumonia. He had a 105.5° fever, a racking cough shook his 800-pound frame. Despite huge doses of sulfanilamide and an oxygen tent, he grew steadily weaker. Then Spitfire, a purebred Guernsey bull, achieved a measure of immortality-he became the first animal (outside a laboratory) to be treated with penicillin. WPB, which now has plentiful supplies for all serious cases, let his veterinarian have 2,500,000 units (normal human dose: 1,000,000 units). At week's end, the news from Hardwick, Mass. was better: after a few gigantic shots, Spitfire...
...because Byrnes had not consulted him on the tax proposals. In retaliation. Jimmy Byrnes's enemies began circulating the story that it was he who had let the famed "Clear it with Sidney" crack leak out during the Presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Sam Rosenman was reportedly sulking in his tent, sorry he ever left his New York judgeship to take up residence in the White House...
Died. Harry Langdon, 60, wide-eyed, comic deadpantomimer of Hollywood's silent-film days (The Strong Man, Long Pants, etc.); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Out of a long apprenticeship in carnivals, circuses, tent shows, vaudeville, Langdon evolved his helpless, forlorn, little-man-against-the-world comic style, which was once worth $7,500 a week, later sank to "$22 a week-some weeks...
...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
Stars and Stripes published it under the heading "Nurse Writes Editorial." But Nurse Slanger never saw it in print. The night after she wrote the piece, a German shell had ripped into her tent and wounded her fatally. She did not cry, died a half hour later...