Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head, blamed it on the Willkie "backwash" that had got Republicans so stirred up that they could not stop. But the Post-Dispatch saw a defeat for the Machine-the Machine that had registered voters who did not exist, had received payment for public service that it did not perform, and finally had tried to seat in the Governor's chair a man who had not been elected...
Directed by grey, crop-haired Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, U. S. M. C., Rage in Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...
...unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. "The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. . . . The balance of the male civilian population of Germany could be treated within three months. Inasmuch as sterilization of women needs somewhat more time, it may be computed that the entire...
Bobby Hackett and a four-piece Negro band will also perform at the benefit, in an impromptu jam session...
Under strict party discipline, faculty members were occasionally given proletarian tasks to perform "to prevent excessive pride." E.g., they had to paste surreptitiously on subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...