Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready for a siege. Presently le panier a salade (the paddy wagon; literally, salad basket) picked him up and hauled him off to the mairie (town hall) of the sixth arrondissement. There he talked things over with urbane André Michel, commissaire of the arrondissement. The conversation went like this...
...dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second and the Sox went out in front...
...Gold Trinkets. Kiner, who lives with his widowed mother in California in the offseason, spent three seasons in the minors (at Albany and Toronto), then went off to hunt enemy submarines as a Navy PBM pilot. In 1946, as a rookie with the Pirates, he led the National League in homers with 23. With some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home...
...decided to move to bigger quarters, called on her sister-in-law's secretary, the 37-year-old wife of Dentist Willard Burdette Force, to help her out. From then on, with forceful, explosive Mrs. Force as front man, the Whitney Studio went great guns. By 1928 the Whitney Studio Club, where artists could get together and show their works, had 400 members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works...
When the curtain went up on LaBohème that night in Philadelphia's Academy of Music, Tenor Caruso & Co. found that wintry weather had cut their audience to fewer than 200. So they decided to do La Bohème up a little differently...