Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Assab on the Red Sea, a second army bore straight in, parallel to the French Somaliland frontier, in an effort to cut Ethiopia's only railroad at Dire Dawa (see map, p. 18). Fighting as hard, suffering as much as the publicized troops to the north, they had captured the mountain of Mussa Ali last week and were slowly driving through desert country toward the railroad. Well aware was the Conquering Lion of Judah of the importance of this force. At Jigjiga, 65 miles from Dire Dawa, he had assembled the best equipped, best trained of his fighters...
...much fun out of the comedies of William Shakespeare. When they grow up they go to see Shakespeare revived by commonplace companies with routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell...
...Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...
...teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...brass band, then bigger bands which he took touring throughout the U. S. In 1910 he organized his opera troupe. The second season's deficit ($700) he swears was his last. But Gallo worked hard to convince small-towners that opera is not a rich man's bore. One of his converts was the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, then a country newspaper editor, who reluctantly accepted free tickets, heard his first performance when the San Carlo visited Marion, Ohio...