Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the delicate operation was over. It took Dr. Henry William Mayerding two hours to perform. Ernie was back at school in Winnipeg. Len was somewhere among the Mayo's pickled souvenirs...
...years have India's Brahman priests gathered to perform this mahayajna (great sacrifice) for the purification of the world. Last time: after the 17th-Century Mohammedan Emperor Aurangzeb slaughtered thousands of Hindus. Then the priests gathered at Benares, recited 10,000,000 prayers...
...Nose for the Times. The team sang their hilarious swan song in the Broadway musical The New Yorkers. This engagement led to a story which, if apocryphal, is characteristically and profoundly Durante. In The New Yorkers, Father Durante, 81, is said to have seen Jimmy perform for the first time. After the show, Jimmy confidently asked: "Well, pop, how'd ya like my work?" Said aged Father Durante: "Lissen son, les not get in an argument...
...that four-star operetta. The music, by Sigmund Romberg, is excellent. The plot and the dialogue, except for a few insignificant lapses by Dorothy Donnelly, are amusing. The cast, considering the apparent shortage of males, is remarkable for its full chorus and, while not the best over assembled to perform the musical, does justice...
When you can't eat, sleep, walk, talk, or perform any of the daily tasks which were so habitual in the past; when the mere sounding of a certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when...