Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rehearsals went on for weeks under the eye of the Gestapo. In October pro-Nazi dignitaries attended the dress rehearsal. The cast performed brilliantly. Leading Man Jörn Ording delivered his key speech to wild applause: "Democracy has brought us to destruction...
...play ended and the actors left the theater. Half an hour later the stage was in flames. The scenery was ruined. The premiere was postponed. The cast was arrested. Later all except Ording were released, and rehearsals resumed with Lars Nordrum in Ording's part. Two days before the new première, Nordrum vanished...
...host of dignitaries, a greater host of firemen and police, turned up for the new dress rehearsal. On one side of the curtain was a tense cast, on the other a tense audience. Suddenly the director flung out on the stage, spluttered that there would be no performance. Ording had had the last laugh on The Last Cry-he too had disappeared. He and his wife trudged through knee-deep snow for three hours with a howling six-week-old baby, reached Sweden and safety...
After immobilization in a plaster cast, the paratrooper's progress was steady. He was mentally clear and cheerful...
...reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...