Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caterer named Lee Harding had spent four days & nights seeking a bartender capable of a high, international type of work, had found a man he hoarsely described as "one of the greatest bar characters in the city." The Marine Corps had sent 79 men in dress uniform to act as an honor guard, had immediately lined them up to form the letters UNO for pictures in the best Elks drill-team tradition...
...ARMY CENSORS: who had to pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested...
Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...
...show how the late Flo Ziegfeld is getting along in heaven. (Director Minnelli" thinks he is doing all right, puts Ziegfeld on the same cloud level as Shakespeare.) Once this pious bow to the Master has been made, Follies slips into high gear, runs through one unrelated vaudeville act after another. Among the best...
...ARMY CENSORS: who had to pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested...