Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be expected, the production belongs to the ladies. Each of the play's six actresses add enough of their own charm so any minor faults are easily excusable. Especially appealing in a minor part is Suzanne Chappell Finch as an aunt of the heiress. And Suzanne Flinton, Dare Taylor, and Elayne Coyne are respectively clever, coquettish, and cheery in their supporting roles. Danielle Holmgren as Aunt Penniman, perhaps acts a bit too much at one pitch. She is a pert, dove-like person but her fluttering should be decreased, as it is in the last few scenes, to achieve...
...small part of consumer purchases; another is that such a price boost would add little to the cost of most consumer items. But the biggest reason is that makers of appliances, cars and other civilian goods, although still scrambling for steel, are in such hot competition that few would dare pass on any added cost to their customers. Said a top executive of Cleveland's Perfection Stove Co.: "If steel prices advance and we don't increase our prices, we'll be faced with the job of trying to increase our volume in a difficult market...
...more or less always wanted to go into show business. I was in high school plays. Someone dared me to see Katherine Dunham for an audition, so I did it for fun on the dare, but it turned out not to be so funny because I got a complete scholarship and I had never done much of any dancing before...
...explain free government in any other terms than religious. The Founding Fathers had to refer to the Creator in order to make their revolutionary experiment make sense; it was because 'all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' that men could dare to be free. They wrote their religious faith into our founding documents, stamped their trust in God on the faces of their coins and currency and put it boldly at the base of our institutions...
When Jacqueline Benson was born at St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago, the doctor did not dare take time to weigh her. Three months premature, she could be carried in a man's cupped hand; she was rushed into an incubator. Even so, she was so tiny-an estimated 12 oz.-that there were no precedents whatever for expecting her to live. But live Jackie Benson did, thanks largely to the devoted day & night care of Nurse Katherine Gallagher...