Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently appointed Assistant Secretary of State, was not only a lyricist in his undergraduate days at the College. Entering college as a young, tall and frail youth, he did not participate in the major sports of the day although many of his friends remember him as "a damn good tennis player...
Your smug claim to omniscience is so damn nauseating. Eisenhower-Nixon's re-election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Prime Minister I have served, the qualities of courage, integrity and flair more clearly represented than in our present Prime Minister." Commented the Economist: "Remembering, as one was meant to remember, that Mr. Butler's last Prime Minister was Sir Winston, [this is] an example of how to damn a leader by praise that nobody will believe...
Although a few of the lines seem terribly familiar--"You swear all the time," "I do nothing of the kind, damn it!"--the mood is buoyant, because the stage is often full of two alligators, nice bits of Life With Father, and Walter Pidgeon, who has a wonderful time bounding around in the title role. He has an effective supporting cast headed by Diana van der Vlis as his boxing daughter, and George Grizzard as her finance. The several actresses who play society women all flutter very nicely. So does the play...
...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...