Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether an all female cast was desirable. They both agreed that it was definitely a novelty and would not be a permanent feature of the stage. Miss Buchanan declared, "It was rather boring to travel around without any men in the company." Miss Wilson, on the other hand, thought it was a great experience...
...crisp, determined, confident fashion, Premier Edouard Daladier took his new Cabinet of moderate Left statesmen before Parliament last week, asked a free hand to rule by decree until July 31. This was asking much more than ousted Socialist Premier Léon Blum was refused fortnight ago when his Popular Front Cabinet cracked up. The new Premier was banking last week on a growing realization that the majority of public opinion in France has shifted from the Left part way to the Centre. The disgruntled Left, conscious of their weakened position but eager that it should receive no advertisement last...
...Farouk's hand-picked Premier, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, read the ten-minute Speech from the Throne, Farouk gazed on a Chamber far more amenable to his will than the one he inherited on his Coronation. Although above party politics according to the Constitution, the ambitious boy-King has booted out the Premier of the majority Wafdist (nationalist) Party, Mustafa Nahas Pasha, and dissolved the Parliament. The Wafd, torn by internal dissension, split into two groups, a Nahas Pasha bloc and the insurgents who call themselves Saadists or "true Wafdists...
...background. Contemplative visitors could sun themselves on benches. Some of the exhibitors dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach, Warren Wheelock, Harold Cash, Herbert Ferber, José de Creeft, Chaim Gross, Maurice Glickman, Hy Freilicher, Berta Margoulies, Concetta Scaravaglione...
...bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...