Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winterset" will not, however, be the RDC's only contribution, for at least one single act play, completely under student supervision, is on the docked for the coming term. The Dramatic Club's main production so far this year was Mclieve's "Le Misanthrope" under the direction of Fritz Jessuer...
...Wagner was getting old. He would be 69 in June, and he often felt unwell. Colleagues in the U.S. Senate had noted that the author of the National Labor Relations Act and many another piece of New Deal social legislation appeared less often in the seat that had been his for nearly 20 years. For New York's senior Senator, Democratic Robert Ferdinand Wagner, the time had come to take a significant religious step...
...Each busy Sunday morning, Mr. Steinmetz preaches at the Congregational Church* (membership 205); in the afternoon he holds services at St. John's (membership 45). This nimble quick-change act taxes none of Steinmetz' doctrinal convictions. He must be wary only not to lapse into the formalized liturgy of the Episcopal Church on the premises of the freer, more evangelical Congregational Church. "When I enter the Congregational pulpit," says he, "I become a Congregationalist-and vice versa...
...weak characters are the family heir, Gary Whitfield (whom his sister commonly addresses as "Stinker"), and his sister, Anne-Charlotte (whom her brother sometimes characterizes as "a nasty little bitch"). There is also Reese, a sharecropper's son who is brought up with Gary and Anne-Charlotte to act as an elevating influence. He succeeds chiefly in being sardonic and truculent. Written on the Wind reports the lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide or two, a raid on a dingy brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught...
...Kaolatype-a brand-new chalkplate process for engraving illustrations. "This invention," wrote Twain confidently, ". . . will utterly annihilate and sweep out of existence one of the minor industries of civilization. ... I wish to give you $100 of its stock, now, anyhow, & make you Vice President & Treasurer-also Manager. . . . Act fearlessly & with decision...