Word: haras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo Bill," starring Maureen O'Hara, Joel McCrea, and Linda Darnell is the feature this week. It traces the life of "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a frontiersman, trapper, and Indian scout, and depicts his final rise to fame as the Buffalo Bill of the wild west show. There will be shows today at 1800 for the Naval Training Schools and at 2030 for the staff; also tomorrow and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The movies are not continuous...
...Jappetite for bloodshed. It contains 49 successful murders and suicides, a few unsuccessful ones. The story tells how 47 faithful Ronin (knights), led by one of the Rōnin, Yuranosuke, avenge the assassination of feudal War Lord Yenya. Having dispatched the assassin, Prince Moronao, all 47 commit hara-kiri at Yenya 's grave - as a sign that their oath of feudal loyalty holds good even to death...
...have shuffled and spun to tunes from Pretty Baby to People Will Say We're in Love, Some danced with partners they brought, others with Roseland's mannerly hostesses. Stories about Roseland have been written by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. Millionaires have married Roseland hostesses, and superannuated dervishes have dropped dead on its dance floor...
Three dinners are announced for Wednesday 19, January. The largest will be that given for the Roman Catholic chaplains at the Copley Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Military Ordinary of New York. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar, and Bishops John O'Hara, C. S. C., and William T. McCall C. SS. R., Military Delegates, will be present. The contingent of chaplains will be led by Chaplain William D. Clark, Commandant of the School...
...gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human...