Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 600 sets of cold tablets a month. Miss Ryerson is constantly removing bits of Manhattan from our eyes, fixing people who get hit on the head by file drawers, patching up the bruised elbows of those who tilt their chairs back too far, mending fingers that get caught in doors and stapling machines...
...whose name had just been restamped on the world's maps put in a miserable week. He was nursing a cold, after having been caught in a downpour while fishing in New Jersey...
Amateurism, the inevitable companion of amateur theater, finally caught up with Harvard dramatics last night. After a winter season unparalleled in recent years for artistic and financial success, the local thespians--HDC wing--have taken one more step into what must have looked like the blue heaven of prosperity. If the opening performance of their prosperity vehicle is any criterion, however, they are about to rub their eyes and find the stardust quite, quite gone...
...billed stars of the production, Helen McCloskey and Ted Allegretti were expected to--and did--carry the weight. Mrs. McCloskey started out with such speed that she swallowed many of her lines; as she developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...
Harris, or Venuti as the case may be, was caught last night reviewing his judicial opinion in the deserted confines of Memorial Hall. "You might compare my idea of a woman to the pitcher in our national pastime," he crooned to his unseen audience...