Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chosen to the Committee have been Robert M. Hart of Adams House and Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joseph L. Ray, Jr. of Dunster House and Darien, Connecticut, John E. Sonneland of Eliot House and Bellingham, Washington, John P. Cambell of Kirkland House and Whitesboro, N. Y., Dryden Jones of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Frank S. Whiting of Lowell House and Torrance, California, Henry H. Arthur of Winthrop House and New York City, and Blaise F. Alfano of Dudley Hall and Roslindale, Massachusetts...
Wrong it is, said Chicago-born, Princeton-trained Ray Buell, to worry about X cards, pensions, pressure groups instead of trying to speed up war work, plan for the peace. "If the members of Congress continue to play politics, this war is bound to last longer than necessary. If the next Congress bungles the job of post-war recovery, unemployment will be greater even than in the '30s. Congress must become revitalized and strengthened. Many voters fear that the Republican Party is slowly dying. This argument cannot be met by the passage of resolutions...
...Inventor Ray J. Monner thought he had something. Colorado's Home Guard thought so, too; it ordered a hundred of Monner's cartridge-less dry-ice guns to replace the regulation rifles taken over by the Army...
...season but possibly ended an era: it may well be Broadway's last fine-feathers, six-figures musical until after the war. Its large-scale lavishness-a beautiful chorus, gorgeous costumes, stage-deep dance routines-is one of its two real assets. The other is Ray Bolger (George White's Scandals, On Your Toes), its long-faced, nimble-footed star...
Merely pleasant too are most of the cast-pretty, thin-voiced Cinemactress Constance Moore, big-limbed Benay Venuta, gallery-god Ronald Graham. It's Ray Bolger's show. As husky Hippolyta's simpering, ladylike husband he is deft enough to draw many a laugh, skirt many a snicker. As a dancer he is superb-inexhaustibly inventive, unfailingly comic. But being the star of the show he has to carry too much on his shoulders to do all that he might with his feet...