Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started as a routine day. But after a morning of conferences, the King felt a month-old pain heavy on his chest. He canceled a luncheon date with his brother. As he mounted the steps to his private rooms, coronary thrombosis smote him. He sat a moment on the steps, groped his way to his rooms, rang for an attendant to bring him a glass of water. By the time a doctor arrived, the King of the Hellenes, who had lived a lonely life, had died a lonely death...
...Ingram as a recalcitrant brother-in-law and Isabelle Cooley as Anna have the major parts, but there is only a fine line dividing the skill of the starring roles and supporting ones. Delineations of a philosophical bartender and a pseudo-sophisticated street-walker are especially well done. But the primary attribute of the play is that it can discuss a significant problem in an objective and straightforward manner, without destroying the inherent qualities that make it, above all, good theater...
...World War I, Adolph's brother George changed his German-sounding name to Ochs Oakes, later changed his sons' names to plain Oakes...
Myrrh Was Twit's. Allen comes honestly by the common touch. He was born John Florence Sullivan, 52 years ago, on the lace-curtain-Irish fringe of Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention...
...first boat of the day before yesterday, which may or may not be the first boat of tomorrow or next week, is distinguished by having three men amidships who have yet to row in competition here. Frank Strong, Bull Curwen, (brother of '42 stroke Bus), and Jud Gale are the newcomers to the Bolles fold and are sitting in slides numbered six, five, and three respectively. Frank Cunningham, erstwhile 150 pound ear, has been stroking the Varsity, while Paul Knaplund, as seven, Bob Stone at four, Stew Clark at two, and Mike Scully at bow fill out the rest...