Word: alias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...
...copiously in black slacks in an audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...
Best lines: Eleanor, welcomed by the nabob with punctilious honors, rejoining with full Flatbush skepticism: "Wuss this alia bout...
...jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given by the widow of Secretary of War Russell Alexander...
...Opposer's legal capacity to oppose Respondent's application is hereby denied. Opposer's humorous capacity is admitted." In its Reply the Society stated, inter alia, "Oh well, let the applicant have its way. We have no desire to engage in acrimonious debate. . . . We laugh in scorn at the suggestion that we do not even exist. Twenty-thousand strong we laugh-Ha Ha! (ironic laughter). We have our traditions to uphold. A George never engages in acrimonious debate-well, hardly ever...