Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chops up a drama in which the author is torn between a wife who loves him madly and a mistress who loves him more. Playwright Crabtree has not only given himself a whale of a part, but has depicted himself as one hell of a guy. The only snag is that he comes through as almost nothing of a writer. Nor is his technique of winking one eye while wiping a tear from the other, of crossing soap-opera passion with backstage pranks, more than rarely a help. He has merely opened Pandora's box in Mother Hubbard...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
What's everybody so worried about? The draft? War? Haven't you seen "American Guerilla in the Philippines?" War is just one great big whale of a good time...
Naturals. In Looe, England, first prize for "the most outstanding and unusual fish" caught in an angling contest was awarded to Henry Whale. In Detroit, the first woman to answer a call for reserve policewomen was Catherine Police...
More than 1,500 miles from landfall at San Salvador, the caravels came upon smooth seas, drizzling rains and a whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25, after sandpipers and a dove-supposedly sure harbingers of land-were reported, an island was "sighted" and Columbus knelt down and gave thanks to the Lord. The "island" was a cloud on the horizon...