Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to come would Mr. Ryder kill and eat the chicken...
...Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik who has shaved off his beard...
...freshness and vitality of her performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying...
...abrogate the dual contracts. Raising the fare is politically impossible and the only way the contracts can be abrogated is for the city to take over the two private systems, merge them with its own Independent line. Sporadically, until it seemed an empty catchword, transit unification has come up in New York City politics...
Steinberg, an expert conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...