Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save...
...much of a whistling mood. Operettas have librettos, of course; and librettos are born old. And The Chocolate Soldier's, despite its descent - and mighty steep it is - from Shaw's Arms and the Man, is far from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what is known as a routine revival...
...monument on which he had laid his flowers bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
Meanwhile, crowded into green Argentine Army tents in Buenos Aires' waterfront park, they stared at the glittering skyline, at the bulging grain elevators, and the ships from half the world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...
Song Hit. In London, when Soprano Josie Fearon bore down on a high note during a BBC broadcast, a heavy, "unbreakable" glass tumbler shattered to bits in the home of Listener Philip Mansel, 60 miles away...