Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went up in lights on the marquee, and for more than half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white flicker of TV in turn haunted the movies. But wherever actors worked at their trade, Ethel Barrymore ruled...
...most famous raid, which took him 150 miles into enemy territory, obliterated the troublesome Indian village at St. Francis, near the St. Lawrence River. The raiders had bad luck; the French discovered their cache of food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers...
When 40 carabinieri arrived to clear the marketplace for the day's trade, tempers flared, and the trouble began. Fighting tear gas with rocks, cabbages and potatoes, the mob forced the troopers to retreat into the city hall, where for good measure the rioters ransacked the local tax office and burned the tax records. Seizing the abandoned carabinieri truck, the peasants drove it through the barred double doors of the city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors...
...number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed by busy Jackie Bright, last year bought 62 acres of land in the Catskills, plus assorted buildings, announced that this was the new retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills? You need overcoats, underwear and everything else. What are they going to do in the winter-sit in the basement and watch...
...itself, sums up the strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more light in Christ...