Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occurred Aug. 25. Of the 23 bombing raids on Berlin up to this week, nine have taken place since Oct. 1, when lengthening nights made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation of thousands of nonessential inhabitants of the industrial Rhineland and Ruhr, some to as far as the country districts around German-held Paris. Berlin "the unbombable" reeled under bombs. It hurt. And Adolf Hitler, who has always...
Strictly by invitation, Pittsburgh's stiffest and shiniest shirts ranked themselves on the Carnegie stage, decked and double-decked with greenery-yallery ferns and flowers. The ceremonies went on the air with the national anthem, thanksgivings for the late Mr. Carnegie, and warblings by a home-grown soprano, who sang The Last Rose of Summer as an encore...
Michigan had Tom Harmon. Pennsylvania had Francis Xavier Reagan. Last week, as undefeated Penn went to Ann Arbor to tackle unbeaten Michigan, sportswriters set the stage for a Duel of the Century between two great halfbacks. Reagan's spectacular record this autumn almost matched Harmon's: ten touchdowns to Harmon's eleven, 156 yards gained a game to Harmon's 158. Reagan's superb punting, passing and running had made Penn a candidate for the mythical U. S. football championship...
...late of The Princeton Triangle Club), who for the umphundredth time agreed to help two fellow Oxonians out of sentimental dilemmas by impersonating the aunt of one of them. And they ogled three of the prettiest baggages (Mary Mason, Phyllis Avery, Katherine Wiman) exhibited this year on a Manhattan stage...
...Among his performing cats a trainer named Tetchow once had a tom who streaked up a rope hanging from the proscenium arch, got into a parachute basket, floated down to the stage...