Word: labour
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...Brattle Theatre Company and William Shakespeare have again collaborated and in "Love's Labour's Lost" have brought forth a production bound to delight their Cambridge audiences. Not only is the Brattle Company at its best, but it has chosen a play well tailored to its own sense of fancy...
...Love's Labour's Lost" does not read as well as it plays, and thus the production itself is especially lauditory. Director Albert Marre has given it a Shavian setting; the characters dress in 19th century costume and move in a "Man and Superman" milieu without the least offense to context. "Love's Labour's Lost" would be young in any century, if it received the kind 'of delicate treatment which the Brattle Company has administered. Grace and delicacy are just what the Brattle group has given...
...Love's Labour's Lost" is colorful, lively, and designed to captivate. It is in complete tune with the season. A delightful spring reigns at the Brattle...
Died. Sir Harold Beresford Butler, 67, a founder of the League of Nations' I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), who served as its director (1932-38), then as warden of Oxford's Nuffield College (r939-43), finally as Director General of the British Information Services in America during the war years; of acute pancreatitis; in Reading, England...
...Though Shaw's proposed "alfabet" never got beyond the discussion stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...