Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with great gentleness, a husky stagehand and a medieval huntsman lifted the frail body of a bravely smiling diva, deposited her tenderly on the cushions of a shell-backed fairy-tale divan. Amid a crowd of pirouetting nymphs and satyrs the reclining diva, her blond hair sparkling with stage diamonds, was slowly wheeled on the stage...
...Marjorie Lawrence, once the most glamorous of Metropolitan Sieglindes and Brünnhildes. She had made her last exit from that stage mounted on a bay charger at the close of Wagner's Götterdämmerung on March 22, 1941. Since then Marjorie Lawrence had been fighting a battle few thought she could win. Her antagonist: infantile paralysis...
...capitalizing upon the story of last week's impressive council of war in North Africa, the nation's press set the stage a bit too elaborately for what was to follow. This story was promised in advance as the year's most important. It was not. First of all, the significance of such a conference on war strategy would rest primarily in the nature of the plans themselves and no one should have expected these to be revealed immdiately. At present, the highlight of the conference is merely the fact that United Nations war policies were heavily reiterated...
Jazz, the real jazz, is the acknowledged American muric, but those who have tried to force it into classical forms have been blatantly unsuccessful. The only composers to get anywhere expanding jazz for the concert stage have worked upward from it, not downward to it from classical music...
...industrial stage last week pranced a brand-new performer-handsome, broad-shouldered, 26-year-old Stanley Arnold Odium, son of famed investment trust magnate Floyd B. Odium, and a young buck out to show the world and his father that he could do a job. His first act was a juggling number called Great American Industries Inc., which already makes industrial rubber products, fire engines and tank rescue trucks, is adding telephones and electrical equipment. However much of a hodgepodge, Stanley's venture is spreading like a grass fire and making big money in the process...