Word: prolog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second of Philadelphia's great medical Da Costas last week delivered his valedictory to Medicine, his prolog to Death. When Jacob Mendez Da Costa (1833-1900) died, the profession summed up its reverence for him in the title, "physicians' physician." The eulogy "surgeons' teacher" is ready for John Chalmers Da Costa, no kin of Dr. Jacob. He has taught in Philadelphia more than 40 years...
...towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. of New York. Wood had played Vines twice before and beaten him once. The night before the final he told friends that he "had Vines's number." Nobody was much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second set by winning two games in cyclonic style. They were the last he won. Self-contained, graceful Wood, master of backcourt elegance and a competent volley, was softballing Vines out of his game. In every other match the Californian had undone his opponents...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...
...famed Sir Christopher Wren, has housed similar productions each year since 1729. Older than the Westminster tradition of struggling for a tossed pancake on Shrove Tuesday is the annual presentation of a Latin play. It is also customary for the year's bright scholars to write a prolog and epilog and last fortnight the London Times bowed to custom by reproducing these learned appendages fully-four fat columns of Latin...