Word: classics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius and the First Gravedigger...
Amos 'n' Andy. For the past 21 years, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden have played the title roles and most of the other parts of their radio classic. They will not go with the show to television. Still undecided: whether the cast shall be white or Negro, or both...
...Remorino home. In an early-morning session in the President's Casa Rosada office, the two men were asked to explain the difference in their views. Words passed, tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then, pulling his sixth resignation from his pocket, he slapped it on the President's desk. "This is the end of this!" he said, and slammed...
...family were those classic victims of the 19th Century-the father who took to drink and violence, the brother who went mad, the brother who took opium. There were also such delights of life in the hills and lanes of Lincolnshire that at Cambridge in 1827 the poet wrote a homesick set of lines complaining that the smoke of the university town besmirched the pure stars...
...most tight-fisted Congressman found a little sentiment stirring in his breast at so crass a thought. Last week a congressional committee approved plans for the spending of $5,400,000 to restore 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a way destined to make the White House survive in all its classic glory for another 300 to 500 years...