Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look! See how the cherry blossoms fall mutely...
Even when it was new, 17 years ago, Noel Coward's Private Lives was no great shakes as a play. When it was revived this fall on Broadway, it had plainly not improved with the years. But last week, as it has for the past six weeks, Private Lives was packing the Plymouth Theater with as many standees as the New York Fire Department will allow. What the customers were crowding to see was not so much a play as a remarkable personality with a remarkable name: Tallulah Bankhead...
Negro Attorney Martin A. Martin (and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) went to court last year, got a federal judge to order the two schools "substantially equalized" by fall. As a result, the local board bought a new pump and $480 worth of books for the Negro school, and added a stenography course. That wasn't enough to satisfy Attorney Martin; he went to court again...
Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...
...backers up, played tight, often drifting in almost to the line of scrimmage, and with straight-ahead man Shafer out of the game, the Elis were able to stop anything through the middle. Valpey solved the problem with two bread-and-butter plays that have been gaining ground all fall--the wing-back off-tackle slant to one flank and the tailback sweep and or cutback to the other. Moffle, the wingback, clicked off 149 yards and tailback Roche added an other 130, including the two payoff long-gainers in the final period...