Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody, friend or foe, could accuse him of not speaking his mind. He was wide open to rocks and cheers all along the right...
...marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna Dell and Lovelies Marilyn ("Miss America, 1946") Buferd and Wendy Russell denied having been paid for their company. So did all the other girls...
Across the street from the new library is the Dana-Palmer house once resting on solid foundations. Before the house can act as the University's guest lodgings, the four condemned chimneys will have to be rebuilt...
...opera singer must learn to act" is one of the guiding principles propounded to students in the practice sheds and barns at Tanglewood. In fact, singing technique is taught here only as an incidental factor to staging...
Died. Robert Latham Owen, 91, one of Oklahoma's first two Senators (from 1907 until he went blind in 1925), co-author of the Federal Reserve Act (which in 1939 he called a failure owing to poor administration), and great friend of the Indian (he was part Cherokee); in Washington...