Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Play's The Thing. For the most part the produce of these theaters is nonpolitical. Their repertories are extremely broad. Probably nowhere in the world can you find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...
...There is nothing between us and Red Beach but twinkling, flaring, dancing explosions. Two white fountains spring up in the water just ahead of our tender and the commander snaps: 'Here it comes. Mortars. Get down!' We duck. Then there is the pinging of machine-gun fare and we duck again. Now an amphtank chuffs up on the beach, swings and throws a shot to the left. Next in are the amphtracks, and then the landing boats, loaded with troops. Presently the beach has a jeep, a bulldozer, a U.S. flag. These things make the landing official...
These well-dressed, well-fed people did not fare badly under the Germans. "They destroyed beautiful things, got drunk, acted like swine. After that we simply tolerated them until you came." And now they would like things to become normal again. But General de Gaulle is committed to a certain amount of state control of business and the, left keeps pressing for more. A week ago an astute rightist said: the right must vote socialist to keep the Communists out of power. This week the same man said: "The Communists will get out of hand. Let them. Then your Army...
...Fare Dealing. In Portland, Ore., a woman passenger handed a bus driver two tickets, explained: "I weigh 481 pounds, and I really take up two full seats...
...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...