Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation from last season's team and a collection of stars from the past were on hand to congratulate the groom and his Crimson-faced bride at the reception in the Hotel Somerset...
During the past few days, painters have been working in the second floor Common Rooms, and progress indicates that maintenance men will soon be able to squeeze in the four or five tables...
...Desire. Without taste or talent, ear for speech or eye for character, Playwright Hayes showed how a city boy's dissolute family and a country girl's disapproving one worked to prevent their marrying. Seldom has the course of true love run rougher-among souses and trollops, past theft and rape. Love eventually triumphed, but Leaf and Bough speedily closed...
Author Joseph Hirsh points out that in the past 100 years the amount of alcohol (not alcoholic beverages) consumed has gone up only .02%; more beer and less whiskey is being drunk today. But the point is that there are a lot more people around who have reached the drinking age. The modern world, Hirsh says, encourages drinking. It is a "world of acute tensions and violence, and it is from this kind of world that sick people come...
Tevye and his troubles are at the center of Sholom Aleichem's classic Yiddish tales, which in the past half century have become an integral part of Jewish folk life. Some have been translated into English in Tevye's Daughters-though with only a shade of the ironic, shoulder-shrugging spirit of the original...