Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is some question as to exactly what the purpose of a "repertory theatre" is. Some have claimed it to be of an experimental nature, to assemble a collection of rare plays and good actors and maintain a fountain from which will pour a variety of dramatic experiences not available at your neighborhood theatre. Others explain the aim of a repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary...
...this administration to pay 21,500 lire for ... ceding 191 hectares to hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall reign. I am, sir, your most obedient servant...
...heavy doors of Memorial Hall swing open and the veterans surge in. What follows is not a hopeless struggle between the veterans, who pour through at the rate of several hundred per hour, and the heavily-outnumbered book staff; Mrs. McCloskey said the system works "beautifully...
Last week's victims of his satire: the "Men of Distinction" liquor ads, tedious radio news features, tobacco auctioneers and cigaret advertising (". . . Try the taste test. Simply take a package of Morgan cigarets, remove the paper from each cigaret [and] pour the tobacco into a bowl. Now, taste...
...crippling shortages, was finally running in high gear. Last week Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small cheerily reported: "stop-&-go output" has been replaced by "continuous, high-level production." The pipelines would soon be full and, "if industrial peace continues, an enormous amount of consumers goods would soon pour...