Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional blood feuds the hard-drinking Albanians like an occasion to celebrate, and wily King Zog, who knows that many a prominent tribesman has sworn to kill him, last week kept them occupied with three whole days of celebrations. Proud Ghegs from the north, with their trousered Moslem women, bare-foot Tosks from the south forgot their feuds as they guzzled each other's mulberry brandy and coarse wine from bulging goatskin flasks. When enthusiasm lagged on the second day, the Government footed the bill for mass weddings for 150 couples and the goatskins were filled & refilled...
...muffled death-rattles backstage, the Mercury came to its first play's first night. On November 11 it produced Julius Caesar. On November 12 the public was informed that Shakespeare's five-act classic had: 1) been turned into a one-act cyclone, 2) on a bare stage, 3) in modern dress, 4) with a modern meaning, 5) gone over with the loudest bang that Shakespeare-lovers could recall. And decidedly First in Rome had been Director Orson Welles for managing the entire production, Actor Orson Welles for making Brutus come alive in a blue-serge suit...
Harvard track experienced a spectacular victory and a considerable loss Saturday in the New England Relays when Captain Alexander Northrop ran the last lap of a winning 4:17.6 mile in a bare foot and when Torbert Mac-Donald, top Crimson sprinter, collapsed in the hundred with a pulled muscle...
...foliage, Poet Holden's 77 new lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...
...protection. . . . The newly organized National Association of broadcasters [which last fortnight picked Louisville Newspaperman Mark Foster Ethridge as temporary president] . . . may well be the instrument. . . . Broadcasting, of course, should be subject to all legislation and regulation governing business in general [but] . . . regulation should be limited to the bare necessities of the case and should never go beyond that. . . . There should be a minimum of regulation...