Word: shun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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, our friends to share it. our enemies to shun it, our men to man it." While lights fade into a cyclorama of a British battleship riding a surging sea, spectators join in singing Land of Hope and Glory, burst into loud applause...
...seven: !- Norwood Francis Allman, chief editor of Shun Pao, China's largest independent daily. A native of Virginia, lawyer and poloist, Allman went to China in 1916 with the U. S. Consular Service, resigned in 1923 to practice law in Shanghai. Two years ago, Shun Pao's Chinese owners called in Lawyer Allman, asked him to take over management of the paper, see that nothing offensive to the Japanese crept into its columns. A fluent Chinese linguist, Allman reads every story that goes into Shun Pao, writes editorials, corrects editorials written by staff members. He serves without...
...after thunder last week came rain. Promptly at 9:30, on the morning after Wang announced his order, terrorists sprang out of a side street opening into Hankow Road and hurled four hand grenades at Shun Pao's office. Eight Chinese were wounded...
...night in Palestine's December. Other Megiddo beliefs: the planets are all inhabited by men in different stages of religious development; at the Resurrection nonbelievers will continue in the dreamless sleep called death. Rochester's 160 Megiddos are quiet, thrifty folk. None is on relief. They shun movies, jewelry, tobacco, tea, coffee, liquor. Megiddo women wear full-skirted gowns, Victorian bonnets...
...past, achieves a new and more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty...