Word: roster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There have been great men in the history of our museums. The second and third generations of Morgans, Davisons, Osborns, Roots, Rockefellers, Webbs, Fricks, Blums, and others, now appear on the roster. The founders of the older museums were strong-minded, opinionated, dictatorial men with a curious one-sided sense of public obligation. All the larger American cities had them-mostly new millionaires determined to show that they could bid Duveen more per square inch of canvas and cubic inch of marble or bronze than any European competitor...
...hand to referee a cardful of amateur fights in Philadelphia was as rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
Bill Biggerstaff, a Southern California Rose Bowl player, and Carter Dunlap, who was a student center on the West Coast for two years, are also on the roster...
...roster of fascinating characters includes a worried old dean who goes home to his Ovaltine whenever the action gets hot; a radical editor with the playwrights' universal sign of radicalism-a shock of hair; and a telephone voice answering to the name of Hot Garters. Leon Ames as the former midwestern star back for homecoming is cast to perfection. Even without a capable set of actors, however, the Thurber humor in the lines would still make "The Male Animal" highly entertaining...
...Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name. Though Uncle Dan retired from active producing in 1911, he remained a shrewd, vigorous Broadway counselor and leader, on first nights...