Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apples on street corners; the Bonus Army marched on Washington. Into power in Germany came a nervous, harsh-voiced, twisted genius named Adolf Hitler. Economic nationalism, forced into full flower by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, became the physical basis for the ideology of Fascism. The lines were written, the stage was set for World...
Sulfaguanidine may be of some use in dysentery and cholera but is "decidedly in the experimental stage...
Britain's Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, 15 and 10, did a song-&-dance act in a village benefit produced and stage-managed by themselves. Eliza beth wore her first long dress at a dancing party...
Fighter Billy Conn, also cinemugging, chatting with Cinemactress Jean Parker, said he had once seen her on a Pittsburgh stage. He added: "I didn't think you were much good...
...months ago a remarkable new character appeared on the stage. Blond, blue-eyed, young (32) Dr. Werner Karl Gabler is a Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate...