Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining halls list the breakfast menu along with the lunch and dinner of the day before, and post both outside the dining hall? With the menu outside, undergraduates heading for bed at outrageous hours may make a reasoned decision and be sure whether or not they want to rise for breakfast...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue, produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...
Transfer by Order. Witness Chambers testified that the original idea of stealing State Department documents for the Communist Party was Hiss's own. Even before Hiss had begun his meteoric rise in the State Department, said Chambers in a dispassionate voice, when Hiss was still on the Nye committee, Hiss said that he had "an angle" for getting State Department documents. The Hiss career remained under the watchful eye of the Red apparatus. In 1936 Hiss had the opportunity to transfer from the Justice to the State Department. Said Chambers: "He [Hiss] wanted to know the party...
...lesser folk who dropped into Los Angeles' Brown Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because of the rise in wholesale costs. Begged La Rue's: "Stop eating steaks for awhile and bring these prices down...
Suggesting a left-handed biography of Berle himself, the story catalogues the rise to television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede...