Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, we are not yet at the blueprint stage. I know we will never get there if we start by making exclusive offensive and defensive alliances between any two of the principal allies. . . . Such alliances originate wars...
...private letter sold at a Manhattan auction last week, was that "if he was not the greatest President he was the best Actor of Presidency we have ever had." On another contemporary: "The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the glory of it." The letter, among the family papers of Philadelphia's late Alexander Biddle, went for $575 to an undisclosed buyer...
...This is the Army," screen translation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier stage musical, continues for its second week. The screen version offers some elaboration over the stage hit, having in addition to the original cast of 300 soldiers, many stage and screen stars. The songs are tops...
...slamming of a door. He hoped that Bishop Oldham's resolution meant that Episcopalians "feel there are some prospects of such unity." Bishop Manning agreed. When the votes were counted Bishop Manning had won. Unity was as far away as ever. Said one Bishop to another in a stage whisper: "I hope we don't look too much like the cat that swallowed the canary...
...struggle over the postwar air was still in the skirmish stage...