Word: alex
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...neighborhood where world politics is the breath of life, he said nothing of politics; in a period when Russians were Bolsheviks, Whites, or something in between, Alexander Alexandroff listened to arguments, rolling innumerable cigarets, said nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint fringe, stumping along with his blackthorn cane to a nearby restaurant, observing Sunday by changing his tie and eating a better meal...
...morning last week, neighbors began to arrive as usual to get their mail at Uncle Alex's office, found his door locked. Soon a crowd filled the sidewalk-people who wanted Alexander Alexandroff to deposit their money, or register their deeds, or give them his advice for a fee. By midday the crowd was big, and Mike Sawicki, who repairs umbrellas in the same tenement, called the police. They found Alexander Alexandroff in bed in his back room, dead. One of his many cats was crouched at the window...
...situation and decide whether his troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking the fact that the relationship between the two men is much like...
Horse Fever (by Eugene Conrad, Zac & Ruby Gabel; produced by Alex Yokel). A poor attempt by Producer Yokel to repeat the success of Three Men on a Horse, this preposterous comedy is like one of the more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap...
Sherm Gray, who has alternated between his hockey duties and the Charles River, where he captains this year's crew, will start at one defense post, and the other one will probably be filled by George Gebelein, a Sophomore. Bill Stedman, Alex Stone, and Greeley Summers may all be counted on to back up these starting defense...