Word: rows
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
...manganese. Today it is still a rowdy, frontier mining town. Queen of its night life is the Pastime's Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers with a repertoire ranging from blues to classics (all played by ear). On West Second Street flourishes a row of oldtime cribs, whose occupants have nothing to fear except monthly medical examinations...
...neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...
...full canvas is as honest and acceptable a piece of western folklore as the cinema cameras have yet recorded. The topic has been so thoroughly covered from quickies on poverty row to DeMillian extravaganzas, so adroitly burlesqued in recent films like Rangers of Fortune and The Westerner, that otherwise good melodrama may seem to sophisticates slightly corny. But it is ripe, tasty corn...
...Last week B. & O. boss, 79-year-old Uncle Dan Willard asked his directors for the tenth year in a row to be replaced by a younger man. They told him that he was their "indispensable man," drafted him for his 32nd term...