Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message citing the need for the club, President Conant wrote: "An organization which is to lead to better understanding between these students and those of American nationality, to assist foreign students in their problems, and to make them feel more at home in this community, can perform a service of great usefulness. I wish for you a successful realization of your purposes...
...Henry Wallace deserves almost any service which he believes he can satisfactorily perform. I told him this at the end of the campaign, in which he displayed the utmost devotion to our cause . . . Though not on the ticket himself, he gave of his utmost toward the victory which ensued...
...when Danny was 27, Moss Hart saw him perform at a Manhattan nightclub, La Martinique, promptly hired him for Lady in the Dark. Opening night, he stood the audience's hair on end with his effortless recitation of 54 Russian composers' names in 40 seconds. Next season he was a full-fledged Broadway star in Let's Face It! Danny Kaye (ne Kominsky) had knocked around in show business for nearly a dozen years before that...
Rundstedt's all-out gamble involved the U.S. forces in their gravest and costliest battle of World War II. That savage outpouring of German strength showed clearly enough that the Man of 1944 was not to be found among the idealistic dreamers and crafty politicians who wanted to perform a Caesarean operation on a world at war, to bring the postwar world to birth ahead of its time. Not in three years of war had there been so much mutual recrimination among Russia, Britain and the U.S., nor such alarming cracks in their solidarity. In these cracks lurked...
...Warmoth was born of American pioneer stock of Dutch extraction. In fact there has never been a Negro Governor in the U.S. Closest was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who served as Acting Governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 until Jan. 13, 1873, while Governor Warmoth was unable to perform the duties of his office because he was the subject of impeachment proceedings...