Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine-promoting members of Kirkland House surrounding him beamed. The warm nod of approval from John P. Marquand, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, overseer, and writer-in-residence in the House, had set them up for the evening. They were ready now to listen to the novelist himself and later to discuss his new, unpublished novel with...
From California's Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight at an Arizona vacation spot last week came the nod to go ahead on the political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...
...fullback Lamar expects to go with either Glenn Haughie or Steve Cohen. Most of the heavy ball carrying on a T offense is done by the halfbacks and the Yardlings are well staffed here with either Deane or Frank Crossen at left half while Bob Repsher should get the nod at right half. Quarterback Chuck Ravenal, another Exonian standout, has been directing the squad well in practice and he passed quite well in yesterday's scrimmage against the J. V.s. Lamar also has two other capable quarterbacks on the team in Dick Rinella and Bill Rodgers...
Mahan's works, Trajalgar will not be a classic, but French Author Maine's broad, historical approach, coupled with a brisk style, would win an approving nod from his great U.S. predecessor. Like Mahan, Maine is obsessed by a historical drama in which one of the principal characters, Horatio Nelson, was "specially gifted with qualities" demanded by the times and the other, Napoleon Bonaparte, decidedly...
...once that The Potting Shed is a truly distinguished work--amazingly so for a second attempt. As a matter of fact it was by far the finest new foreign play of the past season--despite the temporary corporate insanity of the New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave the nod to a bit of French froth. And it is Greene's best accomplishment since his novel The Heart of the Matter of a decade...