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Word: events (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure from her last three plays, "Candida," "The Doctor's Dilemma," and "The Three Sisters." These were all period pieces with some degree of the social significance from which Miss Cornell has determined to escape, at least temporarily. She believes that modern drama cannot do justice to a contemporary event of such significance as the present war while it is in the process of unfolding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKSTAGE | 5/5/1944 | See Source »

...keep our editors posted on the people in the news, so our subscribers can understand the event in terms of the personality who caused it. (Joe Stalin drinks his "vodka straight. Admiral Turner of the Central Pacific delights in growing roses. Air Marshal Harris' men love him because he is "so bloody inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Meanwhile in Moscow, last week, an audience that had practically forgotten about The Red Poppy crammed the Bolshoi Theater for the crowning event of the Moscow ballet season. The event was about as revolutionary as the late Czarina's tiara. It consisted of top-flight Soviet Ballerina Lepeshinskaya leaping through the enchanted 19th Century fairyland of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poppy a La Teheran | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...burdens upon our correspondents, our editors, and our researchers. It has also made unprecedented demands on the resourcefulness and resolution of the men whose job it is to get TIME printed and distributed all over the world. It seems to me they have done a wonderful job. In any event, they have done a job which has won for your newsmagazine a truly unique position with our armed forces overseas. They have done such a good job that it seems to me only right that I should let you know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...event, Anthony Eden need not be completely out. Recently he has been overwhelmed by his triple labors as Foreign Secretary, Government Leader in the House of Commons and member of the War Cabinet. He could relinquish the Foreign Office, still have a large place in the Churchill Government and in British politics. Conceivably, he might find more time to pave his way toward Mr. Churchill's place in Downing Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Changes | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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