Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the Old Lion followed the A.F. of L. council to the golden sands of Miami on important business. Ahead of him he had sent a check for $9,000, representing January dues for his 600,000 United Mine Workers. After a decade of wandering, first along the riotous road of C.I.O.'s early marches, then on the thorny path of isolation, the prodigal was back...
...Frau Kube's twelve swine was a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl named Galya Mazanik. In the chamber where Commissioner Kube slept alone, innocent-looking Galya planted a mine one September evening in 1943. It was a dud. Back she went, this time tossed in a hand grenade. It worked...
...said, 'He's mine...
...Mistress Mine (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) brought the Lunts back to Broadway for the first time in over three years. It did not bring them back in anything worth a toy locomotive's toot, but long before the curtain fell, the glittering first-night audience had ceased to care. The Lunts, as usual, had triumphed in themselves. They had once again proved their magic in vehicle jobs, in turning pushcarts into floats...
Vehicle jobs, for the Lunts, have a sort of advantage over solider plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...