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Word: chosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amory Hubbard was named center on the 1952 All-Pantagonal League hockey team, it was announced yesterday. Two officials and four Boston and Providence sportswriters chose the team. Dusty Burke and Walt Greeley received honorable mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hubbard Honored | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

...unfortunate that Teresa Wright chose Salt of the Earth for her return to the stage after a long absence. For, despite the competent efforts of Miss Wright and the rest of the cast, this new Mary Drayton comedy (based on Ardyth Kennelly's novel, "The Peacable Kingdom") is both lifeless and unfunny...

Author: By Stephen Stamatopulos, | Title: Salt of the Earth | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

...Grass Harp, is a curious fusion of poetic sensitivity and imperfect theatrical technique. Clearly, Mr. Capote was hampered at the outset by the limited number of ways in which one can write a play. He had a quixotic plot and a tragic theme to work with, and inexplicably be chose straight comedy for his dramatic medium. Regrettably his continual resort to stock comic artifices detracts greatly from the important thematic development of the play...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Grass Harp | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

...Business School faculty chose the Scholars at its February 28 meeting; Associate Dean Teele notified the recipients before David returned from Hawaii to send out the official letters of recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School Names Thirteen For 1952 Baker Scholarships | 3/13/1952 | See Source »

...doubly great pity that Mr. Morton chose the "I" technique, since his forte is description of other people. When he steps out of Iris for a moment to watch the goings-on in her West Bronx apartment, he introduces a menagerie of characters who are far more interesting and believable than his heroine. The straight description of her amazing Cornell sophomore brother is much more effective, for instance, than Iris' impressions of one of here amours: "And he still looked at me with all his immense naive vibrating thereness, and all my insides goose-pimpled as at something strange, impossible...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

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