Word: begin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearness of victory brings with it a wonderful sense of relief and excitement which you can feel in the theaters. Chekhov's line near the end of The Three Sisters, "Tomorrow . . . a new life will begin for us," brings tears to Russian eyes. That is their real hope now. And yet, this confidence is not unmixed with uneasiness. The Russian theater knows it cannot detach itself from politics in the largest sense of the word. The other day Leonid Leonov suddenly broke off a discussion of play writing to say with great emotion: "But if in the world...
Although the final selection has not yet been made, the following songs are high on the list of Harvard favorites: Time Waits for No One, Begin the Beguine, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Is You is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Rhapsody in Blue, Night and Day, I'll Be Seeing You, Star Dust, Swinging on a Star, and All the Things You Are. These songs will be played in the smooth manner that gained for Lombardo's Royal Canadian orchestra recognition of the "sweetest music this side of heaven...
Featuring the spirited strains of "Harvardiana," Guy Lombardo will open his newest "Musical Autograph" series, on American colleges at war, with a salute to Harvard over 165 stations of the Blue Network this Saturday evening. The broadcast, which will begin at 10 o'clock, will feature the favorite songs of Harvard students together with a description of the part the University is playing in the national war effort as a training center for leadership and a laboratory for many of the outstanding American scientific contributions to victory. In an informal sampling poll of representative students this morning, the SERVICE NEWS...
...Dewey is a clever lad. His cleverness is of the type that makes this old-line Republican ready to accept the quip that you can like Tom until you begin to know him well...
...Lieutenants completes Douglas Southall Freeman's studies of the men around the Confederacy's commander. In 1915, Dr. Freeman, then 29, and editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, as he still is, began collecting material on the Army of Northern Virginia. By 1926 he was ready to begin writing his four-volume, authoritative biography, R. E. Lee. It made him famous and virtually ended arguments about the General. Dr. Freeman reputedly knew where Lee had been each hour through the 35,000 hours between the firing on Sumter and the surrender at Appomattox (TIME...