Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Leave-. In the African colonies, agitation for self-government has begun to discover both leaders and obstacles. A native Gold Coast spokesman, Robert Kweku Atta Gardiner, said recently in a New York speech...
Opening the holiday season tomorrow evening, Kirkland House will sponsor the only formal dance to take place this month. The same night, the Gold Coasters plan a presentation of a play entitled "Room Service," followed by two hours of dancing...
...lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath, and Avon Long as Careless Love and Zero Mostel in the role of Hamilton Peachum come through with excellent characterizations. On the dancing side...
...sixth night of the coal strike, the President faced another ordeal: the first full-dress U.S. diplomatic dinner in seven years. The 90 guests used gold cutlery from McKinley's time, and china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...