Word: along
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rotary traffic, the miracle merry-go-round that would turn Harvard Square into a pedestrian playground, no longer exists. Recent changes in the new stop-lights and street directions now shuttle traffic along most of the old routes, and according to City Engineer Edgar Davis, "it's only the businessmen who have benefited much from the experiment...
Prince Akihito, heir to the Japanese throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
...Dinners. Southward along the Mississippi flyway, which is traveled by the thickest squadrons of ducks and gunned by almost half the nation's 2,000,000 duck hunters, the shooting was the best in years. Hunters from all over the U.S. began to converge on Stuttgart, Ark., which brags that its flooded woodlands and rice fields make it the duck capital of the world...
...tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour: to rebuild the ruined Kubelik fortunes, help pay off a $125,000 debt...
...Ford has used what is probably a record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy...