Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed an anti-B-girl measure barring employment of females for "soliciting, enticing, or encouraging the purchase of alcoholic beverages." Lone "nay" voter: the house's oldest member, Fairbanks' Robert E. Sheldon, 76. Orated he: "Fourscore and seven years ago, when Alaska and I were young, Alaska was filled with dance-hall girls who operated on a commission basis, and some of them developed into our leading matrons...
...Threw, jointly with the 20-member senate, a turnabout dinner in the Gold Room of Juneau's Baranof Hotel for the swarm of lobbyists who had been wining and dining the lawmakers...
Last week, in special trains from Baghdad and in buses from the countryside, thousands of Kassem's supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem...
...Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry) is the first play by a Negro woman playwright ever to reach Broadway. It is also the first Broadway play in decades directed by a Negro (Lloyd Richards), and all but one member of its cast are Negroes. All this would be the small talk of theatrical statistics if Raisin in the Sun were not a work of genuine dramatic merit. Playwright Hansberry, 28, has brought to her well-crafted play the gifts of intelligence, honesty and humor, a saving absence of racial partisanship, and a moving ability to use the language...
...tried three times but I can't finish it," said Actress Maureen Stapleton. But Director John Frankenheimer was adamant. Before they started rehearsals for Playhouse 90's ambitious, two-part production of For Whom the Bell Tolls, every member of the cast had to read Ernest Hemingway's 472-page novel about the Spanish Civil War. Frankenheimer's request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud...