Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the coming of the offensive stage in our war effort, our thoughts should also begin to turn to the end, and to the conditions which may follow the end, of this greatest tragedy in the history of our race. . . . I hope that during this week or two I may have an opportunity to exchange thoughts with the leaders of this most important of all problems before us-the winning of the peace to follow the winning...
Never before has the London stage thrived more lustily than it does today under acute difficulties. Where last year there were 16 shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...
...Stimson's telegram and statement gave Army officers public notice of what some of them had already been told: that they were not to discuss Army-Navy relations in any way, anywhere, with anybody. That Army-Navy relations had reached a stage of noncooperation requiring such orders was an unhappy fact which Mr. Stimson had now officially written into the record...
...however, a two-stage, two-speed supercharger has been developed and thoroughly tested. This is an elaboration which in effect gives the pilot a high gear for his supercharger when his airplane has climbed beyond the best limits of his low-speed blower. Allison motors with this supercharger now are being manufactured and flown, and will shortly be in quantity production. They will vastly improve the performance of Allison-powered aircraft. Today the Allison engine is already a vastly better engine than many of its critics have made it out; few, if any, other liquid-cooled power plants...
...gifted Irishman Dion Bouccicault came to this country and put the first real door in a flat, and the first real rug on the floor, to the amazement of both company and audience, and started preaching the jehad of Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child's restaurant on the stage. Belasco in turn handed it on to his pupil who taught it to the motion pictures. This man is still...