Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clay to other problems. If the Military Government has forgotten the reason that there is an American army in Germany, they must be reminded, and the rest of the world reassured. Congress should appoint a committee to investigate the entire punitive and denazification program. If the Congress does not act the President should create his own executive committee...
...Beirut, sober-sided Stephen Penrose expects to soft-pedal his Arab views. (His first act last week: a cable for money in behalf of 70 Palestinian students whose funds had been cut off.) He hopes to make A.U.B., already famed for the statesmen and doctors among its 15,000 alumni, also a center for technical education...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
...fourth of the working force was employed by Textron, Roy Little's Puerto Rican deal looked like a death sentence. Cried a local labor leader: "A disaster for the entire community." A textile man was just as sore. "It is ridiculous," said he, "to demand that labor act with responsibility while capital takes an irresponsible attitude...
Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent...