Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...
...iteration and re-iteration ... snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...
...John van Druten's smash comedy, The Voice of the Turtle, cost $25,000 to produce. Last week Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. offered it to Hollywood for $3 million. This unheard-of price involved an unprecedented deal. To the buyer would go not only the coveted film rights, but the play itself-the current Broadway production, probable future productions in Chicago and London, the road, stock, amateur, radio and television rights...
Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful...
Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff...