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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentlemen, I feel great difficulty how to act. I am possessed of two separate powers-the one in esse and the other in posse. I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything. But am president also of the Senate. When the President comes into the Senate, what shall he be? I cannot be [president] then. No, gentlemen, I cannot, I cannot. I wish, gentlemen, to think what I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Birthday Party | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...easy. All we have to do is act natural," one coy little monkey chattered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-EDS DON FUR, GO NATIVE IN NEW SPRING PLAY | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...course it's a fact that on tife stage you act the same part through eight times a week as long as the play runs, but each performance brings an entirely new audience and an entirely new experience to the actor. With meaty lines, such as I have in 'Knickerbocker Holiday,' there can be a variance of delivery with each performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Huston Condemns Hollywood's Long Hours, Easy Money for Actors | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

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