Word: conned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Graham, one of the most gifted of modern choreographers, has had a limited popular appeal. Part of the'fun for confirmed Graham cultists has been wrestling with the Freudian nuances in a surrealist Graham dance-drama. Spirited little pro-&-con arguments during intermission ("No, what she really means is. . . .") have usually been a standard feature of every Graham recital...
...Prime Minister grinned at this lame bravado. Mr. King was entitled to a little self-satisfaction. His announcement had come just one day after Ontario had set June 11 as the date of its provincial election. The Pro-Cons are admittedly strong in Ontario; by making the two elections simultaneous, foxy Prime Minister King seemed to have blitzed their hopes that a Pro-Con triumph in Ontario would bolster the party's subsequent Federal balloting. The Toronto Globe & Mail called it "low political cunning." There was no denying the cunning...
...Americana (RKO-Radio) might easily have been just one more plate of canned, tepid chile con carne served up as a hemispheric good-will offering. But Producer-Director John H. Auer and several of his players have turned it into a rather entertaining and realistic little picture...
Throwing Weight. Last week, according to the rumor mills in Switzerland and Sweden, Himmler went to the Führer's headquarters and raged against the "con servatism" of the Wehrmacht generals. In the old days, it was Hitler who raged. Last week Himmler was said to have jugged or sent to the rear one field marshal, six generals and 240 other officers accused of dickering with the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee...
...from this moment on, will you please con sider our doors open to you. And I hope you will make a point of stopping in to say "Hello...