Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting its best hunch forward, the Metropolitan Opera signed Vienna's buxom Soprano Irmgard Seefried this season. Last week she bowed as Susanna, the maid in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and turned out to be the hit of the evening. She bounced around as a properly improper young peasant girl, conniving enthusiastically, clucking her disapproval of other people's peccadilloes, escaping from her own tight jams, seeming to enjoy every minute. Almost from the moment of her entrance, she had the Met audience laughing in delight...
Some Frenchmen wondered how works of so little worth could have got onto the Salon's distinguished walls. But those who had followed the Salon through half a century of success suspected that the organizers of this year's show, like those who put forward the "wild beasts" of 1905. were quite happy that a row had been kicked...
...attack through the breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line. The attackers rushed forward-only to bog, company after company, in the wide crater. The Confederates began lobbing mortar shells, and within a short time, close to one-third of the attackers were wiped...
Again, the story might have stopped, hanging inconclusively in the partisan air. But former Secretary of State James Byrnes came forward with a highly detailed account of a painful conversation in which he urged Truman, in the light of the FBI report, to withdraw White's name as Truman's appointee to become U.S. director of the International Monetary Fund. Obviously, Byrnes was telling the truth, and no Democrat has since cast doubt on his story...
...American theatre. He "saved" Springfield before World War I by joining the First Illinois Cavalry despite his "violent opposition to any form of exercise." He rescued the American theatre when "it was on its last legs in 1912. I was in the Wisconsin Players and we came forward and pulled it through...