Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall). Undertaking the Government's secret instructions to lose herself and her plane, she is very, very much surprised to find that her navigator is to be Fred MacMurray. She also learns that the Japanese will find her before the U.S. Navy does. On a New Guinea hotel veranda, to off-stage sounds of tropical storm, she perceives that the way to serve her two men and her country is to make a solo disappearance...
Last week was the most successful week of the war in the Southwest Pacific. With the Japs all but cleaned out of the Papuan sector of New Guinea, with the crushing of a Japanese attempt to land new reinforcements, General Douglas MacArthur left the screened veranda of his New Guinea cottage, where he had been since November, and returned to his headquarters in Australia...
...morning an Australian rancher swept 28,000 poisoned mice off his veranda. In a neighboring village 544 tons of mice were killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice...
Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...radio greetings with its skipper. Resting aboard the Clipper, unaware of the waving Duke, was Refugee Baron Eugene de Rothschild at whose Austrian castle Edward lived in seclusion after his abdication and before his marriage to Mrs. Simpson. In a suite of cabins aboard the Excalibur, enclosing a private veranda, the Windsors entertained the U. S. diplomats & wives privately, but often walked their dogs on the public decks. Old friends from Washington days are the Duchess and Mrs. Gordon. Years ago wealthy Alice, when she periodically returned to Washington with clothes she had bought in Paris, would encourage impecunious Wallis...