Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This regular event, kept going by her active and admiring set of women friends, bears the clear stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt's character. Ever willing to take an active part in everything, she herself puts on an act, although even mention of its subject matter is forbidden. More characteristic still, she is in no way offended by personal references...
...habitually "failed to act" in controversial matters...
...With You is deliberately banal. Two young lovers are nearly parted because of their families, a dramatic situation which has not grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends...
...Gravitational Field." It appeared that a Bohemian-born dishwasher named Rudi Mandl had come to him with an idea which he wanted the good grey sage of Princeton to formulate in mathematical terms. The idea: that in a certain very special circumstance the space-curvature around a star would act like an optical lens on the light from an-other star. Einstein showed that if an observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other but both in the same line of sight, the bending of light around the near star should make the far star appear...
Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...