Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were visiting her in the Berkshires, they went to a chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts a world famous music center. Appropriately enough Mrs. Coolidge was made honorary president of Tanglewood when it was organized...
...approached this scheme with reluctant support. In spite of its similarity to the House set-up and the welcome it has received among the participants, it does not have the same advantages as the House League. Although the HAA supplies equipment and referees as it does for the Houses, and Intramural Director Samborski contributes his help, there is no provision for trophies or managers' salaries. House athletic secretaries receive $150 per year and their assistants, $50, from the HAA. The freshman secretary's salary is paid from spare Union funds, and the team managers receive nothing. Moreover, as late-comers...
...scheme that cast a fine pink glow over the grim, grey postwar world. Foreign women who were genuinely in love with U.S. soldiers were assured a wonderful wedding gift, foreign adventuresses were so inspired that whole battalions of G.I.s came to rank themselves with Casanova and Don Juan. In all by December an estimated 112,000 brides, husbands and children had come from overseas to share the good life in Boston, Paducah, and Walla Walla, Wash...
...CRIMSON learned Tuesday from Washington that the new deferment scheme, which still needs the approval of draft director Hershey and the White House, has the following basic criteria...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...