Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This juicy setup was too much for the House Military Affairs Committee, which came across the house on R Street in an investigation of defense contract brokers. Monroe's trail led them there, and they had high suspicions. Their suspicions were all the Washington press needed. They remembered the "little green house on K Street" where President Harding's Ohio Gang hung out, the "little red house in Georgetown" where the aboriginal New Dealers schemed their schemes. Paced by Columnist Drew Pearson of the Washington Post, the press laid back its ears and bayed. Pages slopped over with...
Given a hot tip on fifth column activities in this country, Hope attempts to track down the enemy, who are hot on his trail. Most of the fleeing is done by Hope. When trapped in a large department store by the Nazi agents, Hope disguises himself in facial paste and a sheet, and hides in a ladies' Turkish bath...
Sing Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing southwest to the Salt Lake; and then continuing down to the Bay of San Francisco." Says DeVoto: "When Lansford Hastings wrote that passage . . . neither he nor anyone else had ever taken the trail here blithely imagined by a real-estate...
...days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food." One of them suggested that they draw lots to see who should be eaten...