Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of witnesses testified that the brutalities had indeed occurred; further, that the guards were under orders to act as they did, under threats of punishment if they did otherwise...
...gags. Kenny once knew a Texan who had the Senator's trick of saying a few words, then backing up like a flivver in a rut and saying them over again. For 15 years, Announcer and part-time Actor Delmar has been entertaining friends with his Claghorn act. Fred heard him and signed...
...husband, Predrag Milanov, returned last month to Yugoslavia, where he will translate, then direct and act in Angel Street and Tobacco Road, at the state-owned Zagreb Theater. His wife, remaining here, will become a U.S. citizen in 1946. Says she: "When you come to America you get independent like American women...
...like automobiles ... as an adolescent does, and had as fresh and bounding an appreciation of the firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight against his homeland not when Germany was winning but when she was losing...
...time.' A murmur ran through the court which was expostulatory, which' was horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind of reporting would not die with tomorrow's paper...