Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year old this week, American Theatre Wing's Stage Door Canteen (TIME, April 6) has made a sizable record for an infant. Into its smoky, dusky Manhattan basement have poured over 500,000 men in the uniforms of almost all the United Nations, from U.S. leathernecks to men of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Chinese aviation cadets; and lately it has done a roaring trade in French sailors. In a year, its pretty hostesses have danced an estimated 2,184,000 miles. Ships at sea have signaled to one another: "When in New York, don't miss...
...torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...
...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
...suppose I am not the one to assess Mr. Roosevelt. The Republican Party has two schools of thought about him. Two methods of assessment. One wing rather casually sometimes speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
...accurate shooting of Freshman Wally Sears, the Junior Varsity hockey team topped an inferior Yale sextet 9 to 3 at the Boston Garden Saturday afternoon. Defense man Milt Stearns and wing Dave Baldwin followed Sears with two goals apiece...