Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight against relaxing the Neutrality Act. He was a loyal supporter of all wartime measures after Dec. 7, 1941, but he was still an isolationist so far as postwar plans were concerned...
Said a ragged girl, representing Austria in a Vienna cabaret act: "I am the Cinderella of Europe, doomed to indefinite poverty and slavery because of the jealousy of my four suitors...
...other posts went to the right-wing landowner Liberals and his own middle-of-the-road Radicals. But even as clever a performer as Gonzÿlez found it difficult to walk this political tightrope with the comrades on his shoulders. Last month, he eased them out of the act, and formed a new Cabinet dominated by his own party...
Professor Cox, who dealt sharply with the legal aspects of the proposed bills, declared by the both the labor act recently passed by the House of Representatives and the one currently before the Senate would weaken unions and thus hamper collective bargaining, "on which the major load of industrial peace must rest...
Allegretti, too, got some and only some of his part. He played it for humor--and he got just that. Credit must not be denied Allegretti for the laughs at which he aimed: he got them, acting, indeed, with more skill than anyone else in the cast if also with more mugging and audience-facing. But his comedy was of an almost slapstick variety at times, never fulfilling its tragic implications for his family and his country, his style ranging as far as bombast toward the middle of the last act and mawkishness toward the close...