Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna Mae Bain, a miner's wife, stood weeping in the rain, repeating desperately: "Jim will come out alive. He simply has to do that for me and his children." Many other tired women stood in numb silence. The Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Co. had not seen fit to insure its men under Kentucky's workmen's compensation laws, and there would be no benefits for the widows...
...Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...expressive features lent excellent emphasis to Wilde's epigrams; while Cathleen O'Conor was exquisitely amusing as the sharp-tongued, lofty Lady Bracknell. Other notable performances were John Jay Hughes' harried Worthing, Elaine Limpert's highly decorous Miss Prism, and Seabury Quinn's limp and sanctimonious Canon Chasuble. Anna A. Prince, Jr. was, despite a certain tendency toward overplaying, a charming and decorative Gwendolen, while Jane D. Philbin as Cecily was sufficiently wide-eyed and innocent...
...could get under Russia's peculiar "freedom of the press." The New York Times's able, soft-voiced Brooks Atkinson found "humorous stories ... especially difficult to get approved. [They] arouse inordinate suspicion." And it was not that the correspondents were anti-Russian ; one of the complainers was Anna Louise (I Change Worlds) Strong, onetime editor of an English-language Communist paper in Moscow. Against Russia's box-rigid censorship, they found it hard enough to get at the truth; they found it impossible to get the whole truth...
...idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...