Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billie Dawn is apt to endure as the theater's best Dumb Broad. Garson Kanin did it in spite of her Brooklyn accent...
Kanin's heroine makes rapid strides toward a whisking acquaintance with basic politics and basic poise. From first-act faux pas (greeting a dowager: "wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
...Grey Dawn. To do this, optimistic Jack Frye knew that T.W.A. needed more money-and plenty of it. T.W.A. might get a loan from RFC or private banks although it already owes the Equitable Life Assurance Society $40 million. Jack Frye also plans to ask his stockholders to authorize issuance of another 2,000,000 shares of stock (985,929 shares now outstanding...
...that the Maya, rather than the Inca, were the first of the New World people to cultivate corn. Out of this skill and the sedentary rooted life it led to, they evolved their extraordinary culture. Just when the Maya flowering began he can merely guess at, but by the dawn of the Christian era there was probably already a considerable Maya civilization in what is now the Guatemala Department...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah did his best last week to kill the British long-term plan for Indian independence. When Viceroy Lord Wavell refused to postpone convocation of the Constituent Assembly scheduled for Dec. 9, Jinnah announced that Moslem League delegates would not attend. The Moslem League newspaper Dawn quickly ran an obituary of the British plan: "Let what is dead be buried lest it spread pestilence." Lord Wavell and interim Premier Nehru's Congress Party were ready to try to write a constitution without Jinnah...