Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...
...Turkey was 57?per pound in Britain, goose...
...number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...
With Bulgaria, Turkey and Russia not acquiescent, No. 3 was a difficult plan. No. 1 would be a large, tough mouthful. No. 2 seemed likeliest, if it could be executed in stuch a way as not to injure Italian morale...
...Evansville, Ind., a blind man holding a gun with a friend looking over his shoulder, won a turkey shoot...