Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when people come to visit, she gazes at him adoringly, or licks her fingers, smooths his thinning hair and murmurs, "Horst, am I pretty?" But Horst plays glum. One day she gurgled: "Guess what we're having for dinner-your favorite dish!" And Horst replied: "So what? You act as if you'd cooked it." At such times, Maria murmurs soothingly, in the best tradition of the German Hausjrau: "Ach, Horst...
...Actor Coates did not show the ingenuity of the Cherry Sisters, famed in the early 1900s as "America's Worst Act." A net was spread for them in front of the stage to catch vegetables and eggs tossed by the audience...
Partially because of such conditions, more than three out of four students enrolled in law, science, or letters abandon their studies after only one year. Says Chemistry Professor Prevost: "Unless our authorities act fast, the whole system of higher education will disintegrate...
...theme, The Music Man is just one more sentimental-satiric yarn about a fake who floods a dull hole with genuine gaiety. It has, besides, its sinking spells of wit and mild attacks of cuteness. More damagingly, the second act has an air of playing back much of the first, repeating all manner of effects. Fortunately, The Music Man can even walk backward and downhill with considerable élan; there is no denying the bounce of the show...
Died. Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, 86, lawyer, longtime (1911-13, 1915-33) Republican Congressman from Missouri; in St. Louis. An ardent fighter against Prohibition during the '20s, "Lee" Dyer authored (in 1919) the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act which made interstate traffic in stolen autos a federal offense...