Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a musical, and not, like Oklahoma!, a milestone as well. But if nothing about it is revolutionary, everything is right. Full-blooded and sassy and enormously gay, Kiss Me, Kate can brag about its music at least, without blushing for its book; it looks pretty, moves fast, is full of bright ideas and likable people...
Oxford, which had issued a challenge to play the best Harvard intramural basketball team, was "fast-breaked off the floor," as one player put it. The Bellboys, paced by Goldie Goldsmith (26 points), John Altrocchi (24), and Mike Post (17), were continually getting behind the Oxford defenses with hard, accurate passes, and scoring on simple shots...
...salons, a little-known group portrait of Baritone Titta Ruffo, now 71, the late Tenor Enrico Caruso and the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin turned up in a spot where U.S. opera lovers could get a look at it-the lounge of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. In 1912 fast-painting Portraitist Tade Styka had herded the three together, daubed away between impromptu arias, somehow managed to catch the highstrung trio in a portrait that all but played its own temperamental mood music...
Last week the directors got their wish, and fast-growing Beaunit Mills, Inc. got a bargain. Highest of four bidders, Beaunit paid OAP $17,111,126 for the Government's controlling interests (some 52% in North American and 45% in Bemberg). Beaunit would probably have had to pay more than three times as much to duplicate the plants at Elizabethton, Tenn...
...under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...