Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur. In his private life, English-born Tedder kids his wife about her Australian ancestry, a long-standing ribbing which small, blonde Lady Tedder, after 26 years, bears resignedly. Tedder's one hobby is sketching. Sitting outside a tent in the Western Desert, flying from station to station, Tedder sketches...
...tent at the command post, the general found the whole staff having an animated conversation while the radio, unheeded, gave essential information...
...blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was fined $20 by a city judge. She said it was worth it. Shortly 500-odd-pound Baby sued the swallower for $3,000. The bottle had hit her so hard, she claimed, that "all bones, muscles, tissues, nerves and my entire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained." Old Fashioned...
Actually he was on his way, at the moment, to the Navy's new training station at Idaho's beautiful Lake Pend d'Oreille. There, in the midst of pine forests where bear and deer roam wild, he examined the bright new barracks and the tent city of 20,000 construction workers...
Lindsay has been in the theater since he played Polly of the Circus as a youngster. His upsy-downsy youth included being head man in a tent show, acting in Shakespeare and burlesque. In the early '20s he turned director (Dulcy, To the Ladies); in the early '30s he clicked as an author with She Loves Me Not. In between he married petite, blonde Actress Dorothy Stickney (Mother in Life With Father...