Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur and Hirohito shared the same festive day. The general celebrated his 69th birthday, the Emperor his 25th wedding anniversary. Hirohito knocked off work for the day and had a little party; MacArthur stuck to his desk, except for the time it took to slice a cake...
...logged nearly 100,000 hours on his fiddle ("the equivalent of practically ten years of playing 24 hours a day") and traveled almost 2,000,000 miles. He was, he decided, long overdue for an overhaul. At the end of his season, he called off all concert fiddling, except a few radio broadcasts, "to give both myself and the public a break...
...star. She will be the only professional in the company. ("I don't need stars," says Rossellini, "but I have nothing against Miss Bergman because she is a star.") The rest of the cast will be picked up on location. As usual, Rossellini will work without a script; except for a 22-page synopsis, the story's details are all in his head...
Nobody in The Bribe seems to be having much fun at it except Laughton, who appears to relish his juicy cut of ham. There is a brilliant display of fiesta fireworks and a convincingly real sequence of deep-sea fishing (Taylor v. a handsome spiked marlin). For those who enjoy Laughton, fireworks, or big-game fishing, The Bribe may be worth a look...
Elizabeth Bridges Daryush was 42 when her father, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, died in 1930. Except to a very small number of readers, her own poetry was then, and still is, almost unknown. But if her admirers are few, they are also fervent. Chief among them is the California poet, scholar and critic, Yvor Winters, who made this selection. In his opinion, Mrs. Daryush is "one of the few distinguished poets of our century and a poet who can take her place without apology in the company of Campion and Herrick...