Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate their Christmas, Megiddos went this week to Assistant Pastor Percy J. Thatcher's drama, Pilgrims of Light. Longer than an O'Neill tragedy, it took two nights to perform in the flower-banked, frame mission hall, told the story of brothers who traveled round the world in their search for Truth. For Megiddo children, who do not believe in Santa Claus, there were quantities of useful gifts...
They joked about our request to make them perform like trained animals, and said they were thinking of writing a play to present the seminar to curious visitors without any trouble to themselves. An informal discussion of Plato's Republic did start, however, with Neal putting in the occasional oar of the "specialist" in Government...
...this second marriage, the blessing of the Church, this might well be bestowed when the parish priest or a suitable committee are assured, after examination of the circumstances involved, of the genuine desires and purpose of both participants to lead a Christian life. . . . But no priest unwilling to perform such a ceremony should be required...
...grounds that the performance was indecent, Sullivan had posted his strong arms outside the Club House with the orders that the show was not to be allowed to go on as long as it had no permit to perform...
...trouble in Europe, however, greatly increased this number, until these professors found that they were unable to perform their intended function of perfecting the language of English-speaking students...