Word: hour-and-a-half
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...claimed, Winston Churchill had promised the Spanish Ambassador, in the presence of Anthony Eden and Sir Samuel Hoare (now Viscount Templewood), that after the war Britain would help Spain to become a dominant power in the Mediterranean. But Britain had betrayed that promise. After his hour-and-a-half speech, Franco returned to Madrid's royal palace, through streets loud with posters proclaiming: "Down with England!" and "We have more guts than all U.N. put together." From, his balcony, Franco accepted the madrileños' dutiful homage...
Highlights of the hour-and-a-half performance will be singing by the Harvard Krokodiloes and a post-show judging of "the costume I'd most like to have my date wear" by an all-male fashion board...
Says Monteux: "If the orchestra is on tour or not on tour they have to play every day. A three-hour rehearsal is much more tiring than an hour-and-a-half performance. They take this as sort of a vacation...
...Laurence Olivier plays the title role as London's Old Vic Theater Company brings Richard III to American radio in an hour-and-a-half production...
School started again last fortnight in Dover, most dangerous spot in England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...