Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will act as master of ceremonies tonight, when the Office of Student Placement presents the eighth of its conferences on careers, covering medicine, at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop Common Room...
...hastily assembled gathering of U.S., British and Rumanian newsmen shifted uncertainly in their seats. At last one or two of them heaved to their feet. The others followed suit. Gravely and with some embarrassment King Michael of Rumania bowed, then quietly, and in good English, read his statement: "This act [abdication] was imposed upon me by force by a government installed and maintained in power by a foreign country, a government utterly unrepresentative of the will of the Rumanian people.... I do not consider myself bound...
Stripper Georgia Sothern, who had been warned by the cops to slow down (TIME, March 8), ground to a halt at Manhattan's Club Samoa. Police who came back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops] claimed I did grinds-grinds is when a girl stands still and rolls her hips all around. I didn't do grinds. . . . What I do is a takeoff on the old-style bumps. ... A burlesque on burlesque, see? Strictly for the laughs and no panting...
Billy Sunday had made the choreography easy: he used to act out most of the parables in his sermons himself. Ruth Page had lifted three of her four episodes from Billy's own love stories from the Bible (Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar), updated them to Billy's own times, the 19205. As a blowsy Mrs. Potiphar, Ballerina Danilova brought the house down...
...mostly of private and nonpolitical matters. A few days after the Nazi invasion of Poland he published On the Marble Cliffs, a strange allegorical novel, clearly anti-Nazi in intention. Even those who hated Juenger and all he had stood for had to admit that its publication was an act of courage...