Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funniest spectacles to be seen hereabouts in a long time is taking place on the stage of the Wilbur these nights. Count Ory and a dozen knights, all disguised as nuns, gain entrance to a palace in which a countess and her female friends have retreated with Lysistratan resolves while their husbands are off on the Crusades. The men's lecherous aims are temporarily side-tracked when one of them discovers a well-stocked wine cellar; a drunken orgy ensues until the ladies suddenly come on the scene...
...mean little gain for Soviet propaganda, and a larger defeat for human dignity. Yet if Pasternak's letter was a retreat, it was not a complete capitulation. A Russian patriot, he had plainly not enjoyed being trapped in the no man's land of the East-West cold war. No political figure, asking only of politics that it not destroy all that he holds more dear, Boris Pasternak, during the blackest years of Stalin's tyranny, had aloofly "listened to the world through his soul...
...eight Masters are cooperating in the creation of Quincy," Bullitt emphasized. "The Eighth House is an extension of the present system, and within its tradition. No upperclassmen who applies to Quincy and fails to gain admission will be penalized in his own House...
...rather quiet individual at times," reads a typical recommendation, "but we feel that through contact with other men in the same class he will gain more self-confidence. . .ultimately he may end up in charge of the entire manufacturing end of the business...
...khaki, G.I. jokes of Hoosier Comedian Herb Shriner that a newsman muttered: "I didn't think the Republicans were so alarmed over the Indiana vote." But most of all, Ike liked being in the presence of the massive greats of the game, many of whom were still piling gain on steady gain. He was visibly moved by the honor of being presented to such old Hall of Famers* as Elmer Layden, Don Hutson, Otto Graham and Alex Wojciechowicz, center magnilith of Fordham's Seven Blocks of Granite...