Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prop to totalitarianism, the new Cortes appeared to be no barrier to Juan's restoration. Possibly it is an evasion, but quite as likely it is a prelude. As king, Juan obviously would have to front for a sorely beset dictator...
...years' standing. Their excruciating night pains were relieved, and their ulcers disappeared, "rapidly and often completely." Great practical importance of the treatment is that it is cheap. Anybody can use it at home with an ordinary enema can for a container, a coat rack for a prop...
...Pearl Harbor incident, a group of Honolulu Community Theater veterans assembled to get the play in shape. Dramatic careers being strictly extra curricular in Hawaii, the cast includes several university professors, a protege of Martha Graham, and even a couple of censors. . . . Nightly rehearsals were held in a windowless prop room, and because of the strict blackout and curfew orders, special passes had to be issued to get the actors through a line of itchy-fingered sentries each night...
...splendor of their execution, discussions of "form" tend to become meaningless. Only in the case of such composers as Bruckner or Mahler who try to imitate the Ninth and fail through lack of sustained inspiration, do you begin to worry about form, and notice how the composer has to prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement...
...score of good performances by the cast, fresh dialogue and plot (authored by Lubitsch and Melchior Lengyel) and the sure, saucy, suspenseful Lubitsch direction. Miss Lombard's natural, likable, vibrant performance is up to her standard. Mr. Benny, who plays his role straight, doesn't need his prop stogies to be funny...