Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got home (he is still in the A.A.F., stationed in Florida) he expected that the I.O.U.s might be quickly forgotten. They weren't: in a short time Greening had his money, and arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat...
Jolson is grey-haired now, and looks more like a double-breasted businessman than the skinny, blackface comedian that the U.S. remembers. The Jolson Story was obviously having a happy ending. Said Old Hoofer Jolson (whose fourth wife is 24): "If there weren't such a thing as years nobody would think I'm old. I may not be alive in ten seconds, but I feel better than I have in 20 years...
Italian Socialists were frustrated in another way. Demagogic Pietro Nenni, head of the Socialist Party, is caught in the Communist line, though he still claims to be independent. To a U.S. newsman he explained last week: "The Communists are here. I would be very happy if they weren't, or if we had a Communist Party the size of yours in the U.S. That just isn't the situation, so we have to work along with them." Nenni's own followers have taken to calling themselves "Nenni Communists...
...playing the cornet ever since he could remember. He and the gang at Austin High spent their time practicing in vacant houses, playing for P.T.A.-sponsored dances and listening to an old jukebox in the Straw and Spoon, a Coke joint across the street from Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High gang-one was a Hull House kid named Benny Goodman. When Bix left the Wolverines...
First under the wire with his entry spotting Allegretti's head perched on an unfamiliar torso, Hughes held out for and won a date with the body, none other than Ray Nichols, Miss Massachusetts of 1946. "I knew those weren't Ted's hands," said the sharp-eyed winner...