Word: cocoanut
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Boston night clubs are not so hot. The Southland is big, noisy, and has first-rate bands. The Cocoanut Grove and the Beachcomber are also cut on a lavish bias--but the floor shows at all of them are consistently poor. The only good floor show in town is to be found at the dirt-cheap Little Dixie, located in the center of Boston's Harlem, but it's not the sort of place to take your grandmother...
...fully retired" but far from inactive. A hale old man with a courtly old-world manner, he has never had time for politics or social affairs, but his talk betrays an encyclopedic knowledge of world events and history. He loves the sea and sailing, winters at the place in Cocoanut Grove, Fla. which he bought from the late William Jennings Bryan. He dives for sponges from his unpretentious yacht...
Hollywood's swank Cocoanut Grove was aflutter with ermine wraps and shimmering gowns as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its twelfth annual awards. To Robert Donat for his role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and to Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind went Oscars signifying the year's best performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance...