Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie might have called his work "The Education of Wendell Willkie," for it marks the second phase of the rise to fame of the gentleman from Indiana. The first stage of his development came after Philadelphia, when the erstwhile corporation lawyer was introduced to the problems of public concern via a hard fought political campaign; it is significant to note that, as the time of his political education progressed, his political and economic liberalism ever increased. The 31,000 mile trip around the world via the Liberator bomber, "Gulliver," has begun a further stage of Mr. Willkie's growth...
...Italians began this spectacular phase with their conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36, continued it with their abortive drive from Libya into Egypt in 1940, surrendered the center of the North African stage to the Germans when Rommel arrived with his Afrika Korps in the spring of 1941. Other high points in the record...
...cavalcade of show business, So Help Me is much longer on names than faces. Jimmy Walker, John Barrymore, George M. Cohan and many another flit through the book as mere bit players; even Jessel's wives remain blurred as individuals. His mother, his mainstay on the stage, draws a blank. Next to Jessel in importance are Jessel's gags. The best are none too brilliant. Of a decrepit theater he played in: "I was sure there were wild deer in the balcony." Of quarters in a crowded hotel: "We were finally given a room overlooking a coat hanger...
...haven't reached the stage yet where I'm doing the nation much good, but I know that the Army is doing me a lot of good--physically, mentally, and socially. And I think it's fair to say that the Army will be just as beneficial in its effects to every soldier who is a part...
This notice, contained in an open letter to Lewis at New York, set the stage once more for a head-on clash between WLB and the mine chieftain. That collision seemed inevitable Monday, but was temporarily averted when Lewis accepted Ickes' re-entry into the controversy at the very time the board had sought to have it out with Lewis once...