Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere that there was a big camp going up, there was an Alexandria in the South. In Florida, 15,000 men were throwing up a tent-city at Camp Blanding (for 75,000 soldiers) on a flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold...
...Manhattan, the Dexter Fellows Tent, Circus Saints & Sinners Club of America, feasted Man About Literature Christopher Morley; inducted him as "fall guy" amid props that left little doubt of the variety of Author Morley's achievements...
...that night Private Rockefeller piled wearily into his bunk in a tent with five other soldiers. Having got through that needle's eye, he may well have reflected, the rest of the year's training would be, comparatively, heaven...
...face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet, whipped the leopard out of the tent and into the jungle. Walking back to his tent, feeling bad about the way his pet had turned out, he felt...
Mexicans like their movies, but not until the last three years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz...