Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...
...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
...irony was not lost on the Parliament's few true democrats. The essence of a democratic popular election is a secret ballot, but most of the members of this Parliament had been chosen in a terror-ridden election in which most voters had cast open ballots in plain view of the Government's poll watchers (TIME, Jan. 27). On the other hand, democratic practice usually calls for an open vote by elected representatives, so that their constituents can check up on them. Poland's rulers have just reversed Western democratic procedure...
Certain reservations to the plan, which provides for Government-financed schooling of a Reserve Officers Training Corps chosen from high school applicants by competitive exams, were made by the Faculty to preserve a balance between regular college studies and special Naval courses...
Gielgud has chosen for his first American season of comedy a play which has the peculiar double aspect of a period piece and also of a classic achievement in language and satire. The revival of two Wilde plays in the United States this season may betoken better treatment for this greatest of wits: if so, the American theater will be adding immeasurably to its richness...