Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should like to send my very warm congratulations on the article on the Crown (June 29 Cover). If I may say so, it strikes me as being wholly admirable. It is most comprehensive and at the same time most understanding...
Since then I have surreptitiously bought your magazine from time to time, for it is so readable. I fell from grace again, and was delighted to read what you had to say about Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canada and about the Commonwealth generally. I might renew my subscription...
...toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition for a new park. Today, I don't get these petitions...
...told-you-so's were voiced when May 7 rolled around and no erecting had yet begun. Bad weather provided an almost constant impediment, to say nothing of a couple of serious mishaps. Three days before the scheduled opening a downpour was still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived...
Everyone concerned had worked zealously and overtime on this exciting community project. And the mounting of any show on schedule would have been an impressive achievement. But the fact that the opening performance provided a highly engrossing evening calls for a hearty "Bravo." This is not to say that the performance was perfect; the show was somewhat uneven, the cast had not been able yet to gauge the acoustics of the strange structure with a full audience in it, and much of the lighting was insecure. But it was far superior to what one could have expected under the circumstances...