Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real pleasure to read "The Colonel's Crusade" [July 27] and to learn that at long last, a military man had developed guts enough to tell the ladies to dress and act like ladies and not like a bunch of cheap prostitutes advertising their wares...
...full agreement that the independence of the executive and legislative branches must be preserved," said the President as he signed the TVA bill. The Senate promptly carried out its share of the bargain, by voice vote, and the House, which had already adjourned for the week, got ready to act this week...
...Crosby Brothers (at the Sahara) are old Las Vegas favorites, but it is only within the last few weeks that they have begun to put on their act for pay. ("The Sahara is new for us. We used to hang out down the line a piece. The Tropicana supplies Crosby wives wholesale.") Impeccably turned out in silk suits, ruffled shirts and elevator shoes, Gary, Lindsay, Philip and Dennis Crosby bounce onstage to prove that the Groaner's kids can make it on their own. But their father is far from forgotten. "Well," growls Gary after one close-harmony number...
...everything I can get my hands on on the subject," says she. "Then I condense it and put it into layman's language. There's so much that's been done in the psychiatric area that just isn't available to the average person. I act as translator and make it available...
...several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...