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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Private Anthony Walter Plant, 19, of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The second was Ian Douglas Harvey. Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East and Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, the third top Foreign Office post. Both were charged with "committing an act of gross indecency with another male person" in St. James Park, next to the government offices in Whitehall. Additionally, they were accused of "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency, contrary to the St. James and Green Parks' regulations." The Foreign Office had suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Contrary to Regulations | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...final act of Delmar Leighton '19 as Dean of Harvard College was to empty his top drawer, so that John U. Munro '34, Director of Financial Aid, "will have a place to put his things." Munro will take over as Dean Monday when Leighton becomes Master of Dudley House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Munro Will Replace Leighton Monday | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...example, at the end of Act II Vladimir learns that the mysterious Godot has a white beard, and whispers "Christ have mercy upon us." In the recent all Negro production of Godot, Pozzo, who has just left the stage, has a white beard; Hartman's Pozzo does not. Beckett's text admits both devices, and both are effective...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: Waiting for Godot | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...Kirkland House cross-country team proved that it did not need an Act of God to win the House meet. In a re-run of November fifth's fiasco, in which a deceptively closed Soldier's Field Gate handicapped one-quarter of the runners, Kirkland again finished first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland House Wins Cross Country Race | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

What The Folding Green lacks in wit it does not make up in cogency. In the middle of the middle act, a white-wigged actress comes before the curtain to say that the author told her to say that reality and illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Folding Green | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

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