Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, the "Gateway to the West," wanted a gate to mark the spot. The citizens offered $125,000 in prizes for the best ideas. Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation...
...tour was going swimmingly: the lead was seesawing, and the money was rolling in. There was talk of extending the present schedule of 70-odd matches. Kramer, who gets the bigger percentage of the gate, stands to earn $115,000 or more...
John Bull's Other Island (by Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) gave Broadway its first view of Dublin's Gate Theatre. Founded 20 years ago by Actors Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammóir, who are still its heads and headliners, the Gate has grown more popular in Dublin as the once-great Abbey Theatre has grown less so. Though in Manhattan it will offer only Irish plays, in Dublin (unlike the Abbey) it features foreign ones; it has produced the works of O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Kaufman & Hart...
Though 44 years old, John Bull was also virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...
Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...