Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...municipal councils. He said that Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs and racial origins and to revert to the old European concept of smaller nations of the same religious and racial descent...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...
There is one redeeming feature to the whole thing. It is nondescript Lester, huffooning his way across the drab stage with the abandon of a loosed chimpanzee, using all the tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching, and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy' scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns and hells...
...Abandon Ship." The fire started among the cotton bales. But the fire grew. At 4 p.m. the smoke suddenly changed from brown to milky white and a shaft of orange flame shot high into the air. The ship's bridge melted, her crazed masts toppled overside. The fire brigade chief ordered "abandon ship," swiftly followed his men onto the dock. At 4:07 the first explosion came...
Cabled TIME Correspondent John Scott: "It would be incorrect to conclude that the Germans plan to abandon Norway without a fight...