Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distrust him because Ambassador Henry-Haye has chosen to plead his cause largely among intimates in U. S. salons rather than among the masses in U. S. saloons. His pride, his bitterness that France with her 100,000 World War II dead and her 2,000,000 prisoners should fare so badly in the popular opinion of friends of her better days, prevents him from making a wider appeal. When he says: "I am pro-French," as a soldier of France he expects to be believed...
After winning his first heat, Donahue went on to take third place in the 60 yard high hurdles, beating out all but Ed Dugger of Tufts and Todd of Virginia. Roger Shafer, who ran in the same event, did not fare so well, and came to grief in the semi-finals, where he tripped on the second hurdle. Also in the semi-finals was Doug Pirnie, who fought unsuccessfully for the 60 yard dash crown...
...beaten Playgoer's path on Joy Street near the Charles Street Subway the New England Rep. is settling down in its new home, the entirely remodeled Barn Theatre. Making best possible use of a small playhouse and limited technical effects, the Repertory players are providing Boston with a steady fare of good productions...
Nine years ago in Chicago a vaudeville trouper named Myrtle Vail, who with her husband the late George Damerel was once a headliner in the big-time two-a-day, conceived the notion that her worries and woes would make good radio fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings hard to come by, and she didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter...
...grimy as the British provincial theatre, and Gertrude Lawrence had nearly eight years of it, in her teens, before she had a London engagement. When she got a call from the London revue producer, Andre Chariot, Gertie sneaked her clothes from the theatre where she was playing, borrowed the fare to London, and landed a three-year contract with Chariot starting at $16 a week. Shortly afterwards she married a showman named Francis Xavier Gordon-Howley who, as the justice remarked at the divorce proceedings several years later, seemed to have intended to spend the rest of his life living...