Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heard Vice President Henry Agard Wallace cast his first vote. Two months ago Wallace was at lunch when the Senate tie-voted, thus killing an amendment which would have permitted Argentine canned beef (and hemisphere good will) to enter the U.S. Religiously Mr. Wallace has sat through hours of dull sessions ever since, aching to get even. Last week his moment came. A "comma amendment" (meaning "minor") had been overlooked in hasty consideration of an appropriation bill. Mr. Wallace called for the ayes and nays. In the sleepy Senate no one answered. Like a flash the Vice President declared...
This Hart-Kaufman stage-smash has hit the road and returned to the scene of its first triumph. Replete with an excellent cast headed by Alexander Woollcott and lines which are still definitely this year's model, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" is a funnybone feat calling for second and third helpings...
...meant to be-and free to pursue her guilty calling under a perfect camouflage. A murder is planned for the purpose of removing the one bar to the aristocrat's inheritance of a fortune. By her eventual revolt against this slaughter Anna rejoins the world which had cast...
...parallel-parable making, but even the most ardent Bundle for Britain will hardly object to swallowing this socially-significant pill, sugar-coated as it is with distinctively modern music by Leonard Bernstein, clever lyrics by William Abrahams, a colorful abstract set by Howard Turner and John Holabird, and a cast that is not merely capable but alive. And all of these elements have been brought together skillfully and with a refreshing lack of pretension by director Robert Nichols...
...remainder of the cast includes: Leonard Kent '43, star of the Dramatic Club's hit last year, "The Ascent of F-9," Priscilla Freeman, John Darr '42, Rufus Mathewson '41. William Headley '41, Leo Marx '41, Harold Solomon...