Word: shepherding
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...wits, who won't speak to one another because their parents and grandparents wouldn't either, because their parents disagreed about the shade trees in the back yard. Even the popular conception of French love-making gets its turn when the backer's wife and a handsome young shepherd start warming it up right under the unsuspecting backer's nose...
...direct descendant from the family of John Harvard, 14-year-old Pamela Harvard Williams, will find a home here, living with Mrs. William Chase Green at 60 Shepherd Street. Formerly from Wales, Miss Williams will attend the Buckingham School...
What tall, quiet William Bankhead had left was an unquestioned reputation for integrity, a thorough knowledge of parliamentary rules, a commanding presence. He was ill (heart trouble) when he stepped up from the Majority Leadership to succeed the late Speaker Joe Byrns of Tennessee. Yet he had to shepherd much unruly legislation through the House, keep a restive majority in hand (with the aid of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn who was elected his successor just before the state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through...
...studios, donated by the University, occupy a suite of rooms Shepherd Hall. Besides a transmitter in the basement and a completely equipped control room, the Network boasts a sound-proofed (or almost) studio with standing and table mikes, signal window to the control room, and a fine pair of turntables...
...Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth, Drake, and a handful of courtiers. Says Elizabeth at the end of the show's first half: "This is our message for all time. . . . The sea is ours...