Word: 23rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment in which Robert Cummings is supposed to slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...
Fortnight ago, for the first time in China's five-year-old war, the Chinese Army made an attack with air support. Fighter planes of General Chennault's 23rd Pursuit Group, carrying medium bombs strapped to their wings, flew over Linchwan, smashed the Jap headquarters, barracks and supply depots as Chinese on the ground launched their attack. Chinese troops cleared out the nearby town of Huwan, fought their way into Linchwan's suburbs. Last week the fight was still going on, while the Sky Dragons harried Jap supply lines and reinforcements...
...read his well-thumbed copy of the Scriptures over the radio some 2,500 times since the late '20s. He likes to skip around in the Bible, adds a psalm if he has finished a reading before his time is up. The 23rd Psalm is a favorite. It "is always good," he says, "for a 45-second filler...
...were soon stopped and hauled into the Pearl City jail and held as decidedly suspicious characters. Last Sunday we gave our 23rd performance of Ten Nights, with others booked for the near future. Next Sunday, through the courtesy of Messrs. Lindsay and Grouse to the men in the front line of defense, 2,000 sailors will see practically the same cast give the first non-professional production of Arsenic & Old Lace. Now when some branch of the armed services in Hawaii wishes to be entertained, we rub our hands with servile glee and say, "What'll it be, boys...
This spring marks the 23rd that Bert Haines has been coaching Harvard crews, and under his veteran eye a promising squad of 150-pounders is rounding into form. Graduation and acceleration have torn to shreds the great eight of last year, but Haines has the material with which to fashion another...