Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were tears in Campbell's eyes as Governor Dewey shook his hand. Then Tom Dewey promised that he would ask the Legislature to pass a special act "liberally" compensating Campbell for his wrongful imprisonment. It was all very efficient and complete. Only one thing was lacking: no one said: "I'm sorry...
...Chinese Central Government troops swept into Canton, Shanghai, Ichang, Nanking. In Nanking their first act was to pay their respects to the memory of Sun Yat-sen at his mausoleum. All Japanese forces in China were to be surrendered within the week...
...E.W.T.) and all on her own. Her first step on the new show was to change the village store to a tearoom. Like most successful female zanies, she would now like to be a little more dignified about it; Joan Davis' manhunting haunt act on Tea Room is considerably more decorous than her old show. Says she: "In my heart I feel I am so much more than a screwball...
...These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness...
...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...