Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Aragon, "poet of the Resistance," "Why won't I become a candidate for the Academy? Just look at them! It would honor the Academy, not me. The Academy had a chance to act courageously before the liberation by throwing out Pétain. It acted too late...
Winston Churchill, who had supported the hated Act, was holidaying in faraway Florida, but Ernie knew his words would carry that far. "I regret he is not in his place," he bawled, with a baleful glare at Anthony Eden in Churchill's seat. "He [Churchill] is the father of all these troubles," added Ernie, skipping clean over five years of warm wartime comradeship. "This nation today is paying a terrible price for the stupid, insane action taken at that time...
...Tories tried to howl him down, but it was no use. "I know the medicine is nasty," roared the Battler, "and I know you'd do it again if you were in power." Labor cheered wildly. "I have a clear card in my union; I want this Act off the statute books so that we have a clear card before the law." Then Ernie swung his knockout to the Tory solar plexus. "We Socialists are here. . . in power and we are going to stop here...
...role of Siegfried. This week the Met, which has also been keeping track, more roughly, of Lauritz Melchior, put on a show to mark his 20th anniversary at the Metropolitan. In a special Sunday night performance, Melchior sang the most ambitious program of his career-one act each from three Wagnerian operas. Four sopranos alternated in singing with him. The demonstration proved, to the satisfaction of all present, that Melchior is not only the most durable but also the greatest of Wagnerians...
...barely dry on the 1934 Corporate Bankruptcy Act when depression-sunk U.S. railroads rushed into Federal Court to be bailed out. Most of them, representing investments of $4 billion and more than 40,000 miles of track, are still in court...