Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glitter & Garter. Most Britons seemed content to call armistice on austerity for the moment at least. Some pickets at the Savoy Hotel obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear...
...less in that she has yet to play the sort of sustained dramatic part that characterizes the work of a Katherine Cornell or a Judith Anderson. She is less, because whenever she undertakes non-musical roles such as Liza in "Pygmalion," her own virtuosity substitutes for the content of the play at various points throughout her performance...
Harvard's General Education program is not complete without a new Humanities course in music appreciation. At present, non-concentrators must be content with a year of Music 1, which is a broad survey of the history of music that has been criticized as dwelling over-much on obscure ancient composers...
Last week, as the Labor Government rocked in the wake of the municipal elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Mirror editorialized: "Although the country . . . may still be behind Labor, it is not going to be content unless . . . the Cabinet is alive to the necessities of the time and the temper of the people. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED...
...readers was Congressman Philip Greeley. Reading it on the train to Washington, he realized that his tears were attracting the attention of the other passengers. At last he left the train, rented a hotel room in Springfield, Mass., where he could read and weep to his heart's content...