Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play-in six short acts-about The Two Little Doggies (who make one big dog) and their friends Fat Anguish, Skinny Anguish, The Round End, The Big Foot, The Onion, The Tart (pastry), Silence and The Curtains. The cast is now looking for a home on Broadway for fall occupancy, but may have difficulty finding one. The play, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail), is concerned chiefly with food and sex. The Tart is onstage almost continually in nothing but a pair of stockings. And for the most part Picasso writes...
Sole Exception. Until last fall, the canon (law) of the Episcopal Church had been clear, strict and uncompromising-stricter and less compromising in application than the Roman Catholic canon. No divorced person-with the sole exception of the innocent party in a divorce for adultery-could ever again be married in the Episcopal Church. If he or she chose to go through a form of marriage in some other church, that was a matter for his own conscience; the church would never recognize it as a true marriage...
Then, at the triennial general convention in Philadelphia last fall (TIME, Sept. 23), the canon was "liberalized." Under the new rules, divorced church members who wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain specific conditions, that the remarriage was justifiable. As a brake on the possibly sentimental leanings of individual bishops, a commission was set up to review (but not reverse) the bishops' decisions, and assemble a body of precedents...
Continuation in the fall of overseas short-wave broadcasts by the summer executives of the United Nations Council, in the form of a 13-week series on the reconstruction problem in Europe, was announced last night by Robert S. Warshaw...
Rushing to complete as much of their job as possible before the Fall influx of students, hundreds of workmen are now laboring on construction in all corners of the University...