Word: margarete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster. After his prizewinning production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life in 1939, Dowling went on to his greatest triumph. In 1945, he turned down a surefire commercial play to take a chance with an unknown playwright, Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie, which Dowling coproduced, co-directed...
Earlier in the day, at 2 p.m., voters waited for more than an hour at the Brookside Congregational Church in ward one, the only heavily Republican ward in the city. Margaret Lessard, a Democrat, said she waited an hour and 15 minutes to vote. She attributed the wait to the lack of Democratic voting machines--only three were available, as opposed to seven Republican booths...
...Author Weideger suggests that many of the troubles attributed to menstruation can actually be traced to the taboo. The idea is not new. Some 50 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that in Samoa, where the menstrual taboo is mild, discomfort during periods is slight. The idea of severe cramps and pain, she wrote, "struck all Samoan women as bizarre when it was described to them...
After eleven days in the hot climes of Latin America, Margaret Trudeau faced some heat at home last week. Margaret, 27, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 56, had offended sticklers for protocol by wearing one of her husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed...
...Margaret, who blamed the strains of politics for her psychiatric hospitalization in 1974, said protocol officers had tried to make "us an elite, separate from the people. And that...