Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efficient social workers among the evacuated moppets meanwhile hastily scrambled into rehearsal thousands of Christmas plays. Their strategy: "Once a child gets a part in a play he will refuse to go home for Christmas." From Canada arrived seven tons of Christmas presents for the British evacues. Up in Scotland the heir presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, received a dollar bill from "an American child named Elizabeth" who wanted to help evacues, promptly sent it along by post. Her Royal Highness and Little Sister Princess Margaret Rose Christmas-shopped eagerly in "a sixpenny store somewhere in Scotland...
Phillips Brooks House will play Santa Claus to youngsters from 21 underprivileged Cambridge families this afternoon at four o'clock...
...whole, the Conference speakers seemed eager to play down the role of propaganda in affecting the courses of history. The main influence of propaganda, it was generally felt, was in the realm, of education...
...Well, frankly, Santa, things aren't so good. For the past several years, the presents haven't been coming through at all well. Father has become inclined to say bluntly: "Go to hell" when Vag makes his Yuletide suggestions. More and more, Vag is finding he has to play Santa himself and for himself. And the only word for this situation is stinko...
...those toys are too damn good to be wasted on infants who don't know how to enjoy them properly. Frankly, Vag could use an electric train this Christmas. His roommates wouldn't laugh. They're a bit sheepish on the subject--but Vag bets they'd play too. So, could you spare one train--just a little one? Into the ashcan with false sophistication! Vag is going to hang a hopeful stocking...