Word: mummers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment when U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...
...their travel through the land, Thalia and Mclpomene alight at Yale, Vassar, Princeton, and Dartmouth but never at Harvard. For the Muses of Comedy and tragedy know that here the drama is a stepchild, a poor relation, unwelcome guest. Harvard extends no open arms or vast theatres to the Mummer clan; from Bernhardt to Folies Bergere girl, the reception is a cold one. Frozen out though it is, the drama child yet struggles for existence. As the snows thaw and the leafy season approaches, the HSU and the HDC alike announce their spring efforts. Each of them has chosen exceptionally...