Word: tiere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
...rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...voyage to Palestine. Sometimes they leave from other, poorly organized ports. Last week 1,014 Jews were stranded at La Spezia on the Ligurian coast; they were resolved to sail aboard an old 750-ton wooden cargo boat, the Fede, jampacked with canvas cots in fantastic, seven-tier rows...
...Manly is bringing down from Medford Heights to open the Crimson season on Saturday afternoon. The present group of Jumbos scored a smash 14 to 6 upset over a highly-touted Coast Guard Academy team three weeks ago, and followed it up with a respectable loss to the triple-tier Yale gridmen this past Saturday. This is, according to all informed opinion, a far better squad than the one which bowed t the Crimson, 13 to 6, in last year's opener...
Then he celebrated his birthday with Commander Bernard Jr., a few other relatives and friends, and a four-tier cake with 75 candles...