Word: leading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat corny climax, the dialogue is consistently sharp, unexpected, and often brilliant. Michael Wilding, as lord and footman, gets just the right blend of cynicism and playfulness, though his eyes do twinkle a bit too much on occasion, Anna Neagle is pleasantly attractive and eager in the female lead, and she also demonstrates that infuriating twinkle. Joshua, portrayed by Tom Walls is a marvelous English-gentleman type, both in word and deed...
...school which is divided into 25 seminars offers a variety of topics ranging from "Criminal Law" to "Practice Before Administrative Tribunals." More than fifty noted speakers, including men of national prominence such as Leverett Saltonstall '14 and Harold J. Gallagher '17 have come to Cambridge to lead the seminar discussions, and the forum expects over 1,000 students from Cambridge and vicinity to attend this year's session...
President Elpido Quirino rolled up a commanding lead today on the basis of mounting provincial returns from yesterday's bloody national election...
...servants in its employ, who have sworn loyalty to its vague sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
...mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could not keep up. Down the backstretch Capot's lead lengthened to two lengths, then to four. Brooks hit Coaltown only once, got no response, and did not punish him needlessly...