Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Say Die. In East London, Union of South Africa, a heart patient, who had been ordered to avoid exertion or excitement, in one day 1) battered down a door and interrupted a suicide, 2) chased and caught a speeding driver, 3) acted as midwife in a sudden emergency, 4) survived...
...Paris, which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
...Harvard College is worth a great many different things to different people in 1948, but there are few undergraduates beyond their Sophomore year who could answer: "I am here because I want to learn, and I am learning." Most men would have no answer at all, or they might say they are at Harvard because they have nothing else they would rather...
...Iolanthe" as performed by the present D'Oyly Carte troupe represents. It is a pleasure to say, one of the most perfectly lyrical and most permanent achievements of the great collaborators. The opera maintains the high level of its music wonderfully well even between its most famous songs, and there are a number of brief but lovely musical numbers that leave you wishing there were more--the case with "Good Morrow, Good Mother," for example. The subject, too, is Gilbertian best. The combination of blunt, but sophisticated satire of the House of Peers with a typical G & S tale...
...that the similarity between The New Yorker and this so-called Lampoon is more than coincidental--it seems to be premeditated. The matron thought the cartoons an especially fine indication of the imitation and though we feel handicapped trying to describe drawings that are better appreciated visually, we can say that the resemblances are striking and the technique, little short of flawless...