Word: thatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cure the 46-year-old Tacna-Tacna pain in the left side of South America, statesmen of Chile and Peru met late one night last week in rustic, thatch-roofed Tacna City. At midnight they began to sign 138 peace-potent documents...
Michael Gordon is the ideal husband-brilliant war record, handy about the house, shaggy tweeds, chugging pipe. He worships his wife, aids and abets her stage career. They find a storybook cottage-thatch roof, rambler roses, flagstones-he settles down to his writing, she commutes to her London theatre. Every midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol...
Strawberry Blonde is another play flung by Martin Brown to the Great White Way (others current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...
Second Game. The red thatch of Grover Cleveland Alexander is streaked with white, lines crease his broad face. In the world series of 1915 he pitched for Philadelphia. This year, cast adrift by Chicago for his roistering ways, he has brought the gospel of Ponce de Leon to St. Louis. He grew stronger as the afternoon wore on. In the third inning his teammates began to hit Shocker, the Yankee pitcher. Score: St. Louis, 6; New York...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...