Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutrals. In World War II it is possible that even nations who do not take sides may play a vital military part, for they may be invaded. Britain and France count on three neutrals in particular to hold off the Germans for a time. The Swiss have besides a strong mountainous position a small but tough civilian army, probably strong enough to keep Nazis from trying to outflank the Maginot Line to the south. The Belgians are armed to teeth, and their country is well fortified. The Dutch can flood part of their country to keep Germans out of Rotterdam...
...singles play, their records have been identical too. Crooked-nosed Chet, No. 1 singles player on the Chicago squad, has been defeated just once in the past three years. So has straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs...
...this meeting he offered to play phonograph transcriptions of the play to the Council in order to prove that the play was "indecent," but his offer was rejected by Council President Thomas N. McNamara...
...Several of them have served as advisers for Harvard Dramatic Club plays in which the Dean of Radcliffe has allowed students to take part. Mr. Sullivan may be a better judge of the tone of the play than Mr. MacLeish, but in any case the question is just what Mr. Sullivan means by indecent...
...Perhaps he was so deaf to the actual quality of the performance that his charge rests merely on the occurrence of 'them big words' that Larry's Aunt Jessie found in her Bible, in the play...