Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During those first years, according to O'Neill's great friend, George Jean Nathan (in the October American Mercury), the playwright...
With the assistance of Major Nathan B. Friedman, an Army doctor, they proved that the blood capillaries in frozen areas open their pores and pour plasma profusely into the surrounding tissues. The red blood cells, left behind, stick together to form clots and block circulation...
Attentive throngs of Witnesses turned out faithfully for lecture after lecture in mammoth Municipal Stadium. From a platform in the infield, speakers hurled Biblical fireballs into the packed stands. The joyous climax of the Glad Assembly came on Universal Peace Day. There Watch Tower President Nathan H. Knorr, successor to the late, mellifluous "Judge" J. F. Rutherford, denounced most human institutions, especially the United Nations. Cried he: "Display outright fearlessness of this world conspiracy. . . . God's vengeance is speedily coming against all conspirators...
...directors ever faced a tougher job. The roof of the great theater where the Weimar Republic was born was crumpled up in the auditorium. With Russian help he managed to get the damage repaired. He hired actors to start producing Nathan der Weise, As You Like It, Fidelio, Rigoletto, Tales of Hoffmann, and Illegal Ones, a play about the German underground...
...Robert Nathan: "When I'm really-working I keep at it eight to twelve hours a day, usually writing by hand. I cross out a lot, revise constantly. In impatience I turn to the typewriter and write rapidly, then cross it all out and try again by hand. The work never gets any easier...