Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Started originally as a minor plastering job, work really began in earnest when workmen discovered that the 54 year old building was badly sagging. Instead of putting on the plaster, men equipped with wrecking bars changed to ripping it off to get at the walls...
...Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...
...spent $350 billion* to keep Germany and Japan from dominating the world. The main reason it cost so much was that the U.S. did not start spending in earnest until the Germans had under their control nearly all of Europe and the Japanese had the most important parts of Asia. The U.S. bought victory in about the toughest possible market...
...reason that the play is not produced more often is that it requires an intelligent and mature production far beyond the capacities of any of our repertory companies. There is very little lacking in the Gielgud production. After a reasonably perfect rendering of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Boston and New York, the company was enlarged for the present, more ambitions work. The chief addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using...
...regulars from "Earnest," Gielgud plays his part of the penniless, enamored black sheep, just straightly enough to win the genuine sympathy of the audience. The very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng...