Word: ade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easy Aces. Whatever happened, it looked like the end of Lescot's political career. His impenetrable affability had been equal-till last week-to all occasions. A suave dictator behind a constitutional façade, chubby, pleasure-loving Elie Lescot had always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
This production, which marks the first time the HDC has worked independently of the Radcliffe Idler since the pre-war years, will again be directed by Fritz Jessner, who held the same position for last term's performance of "Much Ade About Nothing...
...shrewd, gregarious Pat Hurley had helped smooth out many a rough spot before Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung traveled the road to Chungking. Behind his façade of storytelling joviality he had worked mightily and effectively for better U.S. understanding of Chiang's problems, better Chinese understanding of U.S. aims. Before he left Chungking a fortnight ago, he had received the final farewells of the Generalissimo (in whose residence he had lived for a time) and Madame Chiang. On the whole, Pat Hurley could feel well satisfied that he had accomplished his mission...
...prewar American colony. He was rather aloof, deeply religious. For 20 years he was organist, choirmaster and lay reader at the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Protestant Episcopal Church's mainstay in France and a pillar of the American colony's social façade. Last week the whereabouts of Larry Whipp were a baffling mystery, and friends in Paris were combing his record for clues...
...past six months Brazil has seethed with rumors that President Getulio Vargas, eager to present a democratic façade at the brave new world conferences (Mexico City, San Francisco), would hold free elections and remove his heavy hand from the country's press. Last week Vargas published his Cabinet Ministers' recommendations for a revised constitution and elections. He also ungagged the press...