Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oysters & Champagne. How were the British faring with the National Health Service Act, now almost four months...
...other Republican Congressman. It was his House Un-American Activities Committee which dredged up the embarrassing issue of Communists in Government and kept yammering away at it. And for more than a month, Parnell Thomas has been accusing the Department of Justice of negligence in failing to act against some of those accused in his investigations...
...celebrated, swinish, Svengali-ish actor who has trained her to be his servile leading lady. Despite his mistreatment of her as both wife and actress, she remains loyal to him. After his florid death, she remains loyal to his memory. He had prophesied that she could not act without him, and in duty bound she goes steadily downhill-till about four minutes before the final curtain...
...soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character. I've always tried to find the fine things rather than to make a sneering comment...
Some patients were running doctors ragged with petty requests. ("I always use Carter's Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told...