Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie-going public seems to like religious films. The Bells of St. Mary's, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Going My Way have met with a popular box-office reception. A soundly constructed religious film can compete with the trivial film, and, can perform a definite service and teach a moral...
...streets. But a U.S. military government officer explained the relation of calories to life this way: on 700 calories a man could stay alive if he kept in bed with warm covering; on 1,000 calories he could walk around the room a bit; on 1,300 he could perform light work. The British economist, Sir Arthur Salter, said: "Ten million . . . Germans in the British zone are getting an average of only 1,014 calories daily, which is too much to let you die quickly and too little to let you live long...
Malnutrition is slow starvation. Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...
...comes closest to the western theater. Less formal than the classical Noh drama, its stages extend into the audience like burlesque runways. Actresses are rare in Kabuki, and Nizaemon was equally at home in both male and female parts. As the leading lady in Akoya he had to perform expertly on three difficult musical instruments. His interpretation of the murdered warrior in The Story of the Soga was second to none...
...pleasure, and a great one, to hear an intelligent and competent student orchestra perform fine music under high-class...