Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sick, emaciated U.S. P.W.s. Gallagher, said one of the witnesses, thought the two inmates were "smelling up the room," so he threw them outside into the 40-below cold "like a bartender bouncing a drunk." Most of the witnesses themselves helped recreate the odor of P.W. Camp 5 on placid Governors Island. Did you not protest, or try to stop it? they were asked. "No, sir,'' came hesitant replies, "I was afraid to get thrown out myself ... I couldn't help myself ... I didn't want to freeze to death." Next day, outside...
...Carmen Melis, who took her in hand and taught her how to float those vivid tones. She made her big-time debut the night La Scala reopened after the war, singing in a concert under Arturo Toscanini. Her specialty is igth century Italian pulse-bumpers, but Renata is a placid, hard-working woman who says she does not really like to sing passionate heroines. How will her Aida sound next week at the Met? Not too passionate, she says. Aïda, so Toscanini convinced her, is really a mild woman, essentially just "a very good daughter...
...Grays East; Robert E. Foley of Youngstown, Ohio and Massachusetts Hall; J. David Greenstone of Rochester, N.Y. and Matthews North; Michael J. Harrington of Hollis South; Harold Hestnes of Walpole, Mass. and Hollis North; Stewart H. Hussey of Terrace Park, Ohio and Holworthy West; John W. Jeffers of Lake Placid, N.Y. and Holworthy East; Larry R. Johnson of Emmetsburg, Iowa and Stoughton North...
...Quadrille, the playgoer can glance over the program and figure out in the main what form the play is going to take. Listed on the bill are a Reverend Edgar Speven, a Gwendolyn (His Daughter) and a Catchpole. There is also a noblewoman with an awesome surname and a placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will be on the same satirical ladder...
...Thanked blonde, attractive Mrs. Vicky K. Siegel of Irvington, N.J. for an oil portrait the young housewife had painted of him, but disagreed with her assessment that Ike "is a calm and placid person." The President insisted that he was a "rebellious type," with vigorous reactions, and said that he had recently been going through "an inner conflict" between his military training and the demands of political life...