Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What are the chief requisites for a great actor or actress? "Most people will list a great voice and a good-looking body," he said. "But the greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...
...problems. But it began to come into its own only after World War I." Still, he felt that already the U.S. has seen some modern performances that compare with the supremely brilliant ones in the past abroad, and cited Jeanne Eagels in John Colton's Rain (1922), Pauline Lord in Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted (1924), Alfred Lunt in Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman (1924), and Laurette Taylor in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie...
...City Councilman Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was drawn from a hat to settle a tie in the voting. The fact that the new chief executive of the capital city of Roman Catholic Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish Appeal paid for his trip), Briscoe's place on the Irish scene seemed reasonably secure. But Irish politics...
Last week, as the name of the winner and new Lord Mayor was drawn from the hat, the luck of the Irish went against Robert Briscoe...
...replies that this is true of the communities themselves-hence of their churches. But "even suburbia has its drawers of water and hewers of wood, who enjoy positions of influence in suburban churches in rough proportion to their number and extent of their commitment to the church and its Lord...