Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next, the Cansinos took a four-week engagement aboard one of California's notorious gambling ships off the Long Beach shore. That venture was a flop. Between acts, Eduardo fished off the ship, caught a fishhook in his finger and went to bed with an infection. Rita tried to carry the show alone, soon gave it up. "The management didn't think I had enough Spanish seductiveness," says she. "I was 15 at the time, and the only thing that really aroused me was food...
...historian could link the innu merable frustrations and half-accomplishments of U.S. life with the mood of the people about the war. No publicist was powerful enough to relate the infinite, anonymous mass of individual difficulties with the upheavals of the times. A year ago last June, on the beach at Dunkirk, the democracies had a shock which gave men everywhere their first real sense of the seriousness of the war. That feeling did not endure. Last week, with Russia battered to a bloody pulp, with Japan on the brink of another war, with the U.S. facing the decision...
Words Without Music, by Norman Corwin for Columbia. A half-hour of poetic comedy with Arnold's Dover Beach tossed in for good measure...
...founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen. The outside was designed in the style of 16th century Holland, and the inside in the style of the "Blucbcard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched on the latter almost without interruption since the beginning, though it has frequently been requested to leave...
...Green Jr., Mobile, Ala., Murphy High School, Mobile; Robert S. Haltiwanger, Winston--Salem, N. C., R. J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem; Bradley D. Harris, Annapolis, Md., Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass.; Gordon G. Heiner III, Lexington, Va., Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; James M. Howe IV, Daytona Beach, Fla., The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...