Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with plays as with people, heredity is not necessarily a hindrance. Ring Round the Moon being of good lineage, and its creators being downright Confucian about respecting the work of their ancestors, last week's offering turned out to be thoroughly delightful...
...short, everything about the production was more than competent. Ring Round the Moon bodes well for an outstanding season...
...country, by inviting me to say a few words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he was coming; there were only twelve Senators on the floor, and it was too near lunch time to round up a quorum. Apologetically Walter George hustled Pineau off to lunch with Senate leaders and several members of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Academic Giggles. At Oxford University Truman donned a scarlet, orange and grey gown, plumped a round velvet academic cap over his grey hair, stood before 1,200 in Christopher Wren's 17th century Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota...
After the round of handshaking and back-slapping that followed, Tito presented Marshal Zhukov with the Yugoslav Order of Freedom-the first non-Yugoslav ever so honored...