Word: divertingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means, endeavor to create a center for student activities but I ask reverently, in God's name, don't try to label it a WAR MEMORIAL. The fact that Yale, Dartmouth and maybe other universities are planning to raise millions for Activities Centers should not divert Harvard from the path leading to a truly inspiring project that will be plainly and solely a WAR MEMORIAL. Harry E. Warren...
...further work of ANTA has been in extending its semi-official blessing to the struggling young repertory groups that have been attempting to divert some of the movie addicts from their well-worn rut which leads them almost unconsciously to weekly devotional service at the temples to their idols. ANTA's most successful god-child has been Miss Margo Jones' Dallas Theater. Currently its fond eyes are fixed on Boston where the Boston Repertory Association began operations three weeks ago at the Copley Theater...
...spectators were a distinguished and resourceful group. One young lady brought a pedigreed manicured miniature poodle to divert her during the contest. A hand brought a gallon thermos of martinis to the game so that the cocktail hour could start on time...
...Lady from Shanghai (Columbia) is a piece of sleight of hand by Orson Welles. The big trick in this picture was to divert a head-on collision of at least six plots, and make of it a smooth-flowing, six-lane whodunit. Orson brings the trick...
...behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love with David. How can she gain his favor? That she can never be his wife Chinese custom dictates; that she can ever be his concubine Jewish law forbids. Peony decides that she must divert David from Leah, the Jewish girl "fairer than any lily," whom Madame Ezra wishes him to marry, and steer him to Kueilan, an empty-headed Chinese beauty. She succeeds; and the novel's titillating climax comes as she prepares the gorgeous marriage bed for David and Kueilan."Through this...