Word: ado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...item on Labor's 1945 election program: nationalization of the British steel industry. The House of Commons and the House of Lords, long at loggerheads over the steel bill (TIME, June 21, 1948), had worked out a compromise. The lords agreed to pass the bill without further ado if the government would not make it effective until after the 1950 general election. "Vesting day" for the steel industry was set for Jan. 1, 1951. Thus, if the Tories win, they can repeal the law before any steel plants are actually taken over by the government...
...Joints, Iced Highballs. Already sold out through June 11, the annual Shakespeare Festival opened last week with Macbeth, starring Godfrey Tearle and Cinemactress Diana Wynyard. Among the season's brand-new productions: John Gielgud's Much Ado About Nothing, Tearle's Othello, Tyrone Guthrie's Henry VIII. By October, the theater management reckons that it will have taken in something close...
...great conch shell no longer blew to summon the people together, but from all over the island, leaving their goats and gardens behind, the people came flocking to watch the carpenters at work. Not since the days of the Bounty mutineers had Pitcairn Island made such an ado over a building. The island was getting a new schoolhouse, and with it, its first properly trained teacher...
...Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
...Knife Wounds. In 1932, Marga decided to visit forbidden Mecca. Without further ado, she divorced her count and married a devout Moslem. As the couple started on their pilgrimage to the Holy City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For weeks Marga was held captive in the mountains. Then one day her sheik was found poisoned. The Moslems promptly found Marga guilty and ordered her stoned to death. Only the intervention of Ibn Saud saved her life...