Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
First baseman R. Basil Slattery and third baseman Bill Lutz each played their last game for the Crimson Saturday, for the duration at any rate. "The Baz" is a veteran of last year's Varsity, while Lutz broke into the lineup this year. Both are headed for the Midshipmen's School at Columbia University. Apart from these two losses, the nine is expected to remain intact for the summer season...
Long a pre-eminent figure on the American stage, Miss. Cornell has accorded initial opportunities in this country to several now successful actors, including Maurico Evans, Basil, Rathbone, and Brian Aherne...
...Glory. The hail of German fire and depth charges made escape impossible. Lieuts. Basil C. G. Place and Donald Cameron got their crewmen out and scuttled their funny little boats. Most of them are now prisoners of war in Germany...
...spires of St. Basil's on Moscow's Red Square were touched with sun last week for the first time in two bleak months. Cracked passers-by:, "If spring is here, can the second front be far behind?" Cracked dour, war-worn Muscovites...