Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servant and two pygmy followers also vanished. For nine months Gold Coast authorities quietly investigated. Then they arrested eight natives, charged them with murdering the Odikro. In time the eight stood in the prisoner's dock in Accra's white, sweltering courthouse. They rolled their eyes, cast covertly accusing glances at each other, sweated while witnesses testified...
...TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright, and a good play that has a good part in it is awfully difficult to find. If Lillian had a good play right now, I'd do it-even though I hate...
...modernish costumes helped, too: Hamlet wears trousers instead of tights, delivers "To be, or not to be," in a dinner jacket with silver-brocade lapels. No help at all were the unpoetic sergeants who inevitably shattered the high-tragic mood of the soldier cast's rehearsals, with such prose passages as "Hey, Polonius, you and those other guys get some brooms and clean up the theayter...
...Redskins. Four fine backs, spinning and spiraling from a streamlined T, have sparked the Eagle offensive, which has averaged 28 points a game. The indispensable man is Roy Zimmerman, who runs the show from his ball-handling quarterback spot, also passes and kicks. The sub-stars in the cast are tackle-smashing Halfbacks Ernie Steele and Jack Hinkle, and slippery-hipped Breakaway-Runner Steve Van Buren...
...music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party for the cast. "They've got to have supper somewhere. They might as well have it with...