Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...
Rover Come Over. In Milwaukee, when Grace Meyer told the court that husband William paid more attention to their dog than to her, she got her divorce; Bill got custody of the dog...
Scholars among Saloons. Xavier's 17 buildings stand surrounded by lumberyards, saloons, and a dog pound. Protected from these, on the tree-shaded campus, Mother Agatha spends her days. Last week, carpenters and cleaners were getting the campus ready for fall. But Mother Agatha had other matters on her mind. The order was building a new Navaho school, and she had gone to the order's headquarters outside Philadelphia to check up on the far-flung school system she presides over...
...Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...