Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep his views on both domestic and foreign policy off the record, he outlined his main points in Republican meetings. He was for an even deeper tax cut than Congress' 30-20-10%. He would go up to 50% across the board. He approved the Taft-Hartley Act as an equalizer of the strength of management and labor. He thought the President had bumbled badly on foreign relations. Too many of Harry Truman's appointees in the State Department were patriotic but untrained diplomats, he said...
Robert Bellah '48, summer chairman of the John Reed Society, will act as moderator during a question period following Epstein's talk. Another meeting of as yet undecided nature will be held sometime in August, he said...
...Last year, we assigned seats by Houses, all in one act, because we thought that students would want to sit with their friends in the Houses," Bingham explained yesterday. "After the first few weeks here, most students found other spectator-companions and would turn in their singles for doubles, which were in a much poorer location...
...Beryl is already an experienced trouper, and a trouper's daughter. She was born in a dressing room of a Plymouth theater. At three, she saved her father's vaudeville act. He had called for volunteer singers from the audience and got no response; in desperation he sent backstage for her, and she toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show...
Some of the people who worked on the film and acted in it plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...