Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn their pockets inside-out, and give unclaimed items to charity. The accumulation of uncalled-for articles is considerable--and doubly uncalled-for, since much of the yearly harvest can be ascribed to the over-abundance of collection offices. The student who has lost something hardly knows where to go to find...
...Shoes) danced well and looked the part of Cinderella. Her two ugly sisters, one of them danced by Choreographer Ashton himself, couldn't have been uglier, and her prince (Michael Somes) couldn't have been more charming. Reported the London Daily Mail: "The curtain calls seemed to go on almost as long as the performance...
...always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses and go...
...cause of the trouble was twofold: television sales had fallen off; the tube bottleneck had been broken, and manufacturers could now turn out more sets as well as pass on some of the savings of mass production. Some 70 new stations are scheduled to go on the air this year, and eastern and midwestern networks are to be linked this month, so the industry's prospects are by no means gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said...
...Dear Bertie" seems to have boggled and backtracked. He sent Lawrence an outline of his democratic ideas for lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking...