Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eliminating. Because a person has a low I.Q. doesn't make him an "eight ball." If the spirit of the regulations were used in eliminations, then possibly the Army could get rid of some of its "deadwood" hangers on, such as the NCOs who can barely read or write or who do not have the mentality to handle a lower-ranking G.I. other than by browbeating...
...becomes a playwright, Johnston said, "The only way to get your play read if you're a woman is to become secretary to the boss or prop girl at the theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...woman to become a playwright than a man, because she has ways of working inside the theatre that men don't have. Men have only two ways of getting inside the theatre: one, by starting amateur of semi-professional groups of their own; and two, by having their plays read by agents in foreign countries...
Simplicity predominates? the stage stands black and bare, properties have been minimized, and the scenes presented involve a minimum of physical action. The resulting emphasis on sheer ability to read poetry well suits the group's talents. But even in the final bit, the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream, entailing a certain amount of slapstick, the players do a fine...
...subject as if he were covering the police beat, breaks some crockery but also breaks frequent exposés of crooked stock promoters and unscrupulous company raiders, and does a good job as well of more routine business reporting. Many smaller papers have developed one-industry specialists who are read faithfully by executives throughout the country. Among them: the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Cotton Columnist Gerald Bearing, New Orleans Times-Picayune's Oil Editor Jeff Davis, the Salt Lake City Tribune's Mining and Oil Specialist Robert W. Bernick...