Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Samuel Alexander Scribner, 82, onetime "King of the Burlesque Wheel"; in Bronxville, N.Y. He ran away from home as a boy to join the circus, spent 20 years with tent shows. At the turn of the century he organized the Columbia Amusement Co. and gained control of all the burlesque theaters between Omaha and Boston. He retired in 1916, but seven years ago he came out of retirement briefly to help glorify Gypsy Rose...
Under a huge tent, the sheriff of Middlesex County rapped three times with his scabbard, roared: "The meeting will come to order." While three undergraduate orators delivered their "parts," Lord Halifax took notes. Cried Senior Lemuel Serrell Hillman, of Grand Rapids, Mich...
...have two souls," he declared during a lecture tour of U.S. universities in 1931. "One is that of a man of the world who enjoys ease and comfort and a nice season at Newport. The other is that of a man who likes to squat in a dirty Arab tent, full of Arabs, and eat with his fingers. . . . The desert is my bride. ..." Adolf Hitler was fighting only Bolsheviks, Oppenheim added, and nice persons needn't be afraid: "We are not a people of revenge. . . . We want only a chance to work...
...First Brigade had all the mess halls, kitchens and heads (Marine for latrines) that it needed. It also had a good-looking tent camp. Meanwhile the boots (Marine for recruits) had started to come in. Still working seven days a week, the oldtimers finished off the boots' primary training...
...Ranger was Earle Graser, who liked to garden and play badminton and who didn't learn to ride a horse until a couple of years ago. He was 32 years old, a graduate of Wayne (Mich.) University who studied law two years, then took up acting in tent shows throughout Michigan. He got a job with Detroit's station WXYZ, which was losing money in those days...