Word: sagas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...saga of the Sherwood sisters from Columbus, Ohio and their misadventures in a Greenwich Village basement with a past should be pretty well known by now. Certainly it is to Rosalind Russell who to creates her old role as the protective elder sister. A charmingly casual comedienne. Miss Russell plays the long suffering Ruth with lump angularity and delivers the play's best lines with superb timing. She is also more than adequate to the musical demands of Wonderful Town, meeting them with a surprisingly strong voice and high good humon. When a song is clearly out of her range...
Essentially, it is a tale of two Dickenses that Biographer Johnson has to tell. One is a 19th-century success story, the other a saga of personal disenchantment. Success came to him with a smash at 24 with The Pickwick Papers. It swelled with each succeeding novel and never deserted him as he launched into weekly newspaper editing, amateur theatricals and public readings. In the end, he became a kind of king-of-the-hill of Victorian letters. At his death in 1870, he left ?93,000, in today's money something like a million dollars. But through...
Developments in the saga of the sale of the Boston Arena took an apparently favorable turn yesterday, with the announcement of the possibility that the Metropolitan District Commission might purchase the sports palace for use by Boston school and college athletes...
...admittedly but there are remedies for this. Many streets have vehicles on only one side for that matter, and in any case the corners, now flooded, are easily accessible to snow-removers at all times. Cambridge had better make at least a little effort or else--who knows?--the saga of inundated pedestrians may rate space in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Her farmer hero, Ase Linden, is a rawboned, ungainly man of probity without a mean bone in his 6 ft. 4 in. body. Born in a log cabin in the 18605, Ase dies in the age of flight, but his sad saga never gets off the ground...