Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was rejected by a more 1737 votes out of a total of 46,292 votes cast. During this campaign, Dean Landis was involved in several rapid-fire exchanges with City Hall politicians and presumably because of that, the victorious 1940 drive was launched on a very quiet, mudless basis...
...play is typically Shavian, marked by his brilliant dialogue, his sardonic philosophy, and a unique ending. The cast is excellent, and only a great actress like Katharine Cornell could outshine it. Even though her role is small, she carries the burden of the play, while Shaw laughs gaily at the world and the audience laughs with...
What Retirement does best is five attractive characterizations by its principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...
...cast has been collected this year, a gain of $162 over last year, and $4906 has been pledged this year as opposed to $4702 last year. The Freshman class, although somewhat larger than those of upperclassmen, paid and pledged more than twice as much money as any other class...
...blight was cast on the Bellboys Saturday by the edict issued by Mrs. Mary Healey, dictatress of the Louis Quatorze salle de bain that serves Lowell House for a dining room. Mrs. Healey laid down the law that no women were to be allowed to enter the dining room after 6:45 o'clock. The implication is that women talk so much that they eat slower than men, preventing the waitresses from leaving until late...