Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the sprinting, it might have been a heavy duty track meet. From the attention to footwork and timing, it might have been ballet practice. From the instructors' caps, it might have been baseball...
...time Garrick reached fame, the English stage was in a condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...
...Drury Lane Theater, Garrick made improvements. He scrapped some of the more outrageous revisions of Shakespeare (though he lacked the courage to restore the tragic ending of Lear), and he insisted on sincerity in performances. Garrick's actors found themselves merged with their roles-even though the identification might sometimes become too complete. Once when Garrick spoke the line, "There's blood upon thy face," the poor fellow opposite was so startled that he flubbed his lines and cried out, "Is there...
Speaking about the proposed North Atlantic Pact, he said that the current European situation was similar to the one in 1939. The Allies might have prevented a war then by standing up to Nazi aggression. In the same way the United States can now avoid a conflict by not buckling before Russia...
...McDowell unfortunately used highly dubious methods to try to got rid of the woman who was his opposite in penal philosophy. It might be fairer to the Commissioner to say that he allowed his deputy to use these methods. The activities of Frank Dwyer were continually on the lowest level. He never explained how two Boston newspapers obtained his false and sensational "report" last fall which made the Reformatory look like a riotous Bedlam. His means of gathering "evidence" were repugnant, to put it mildly...