Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Would Stop Tax Exemption...
...Seventh Avenue line, is just about as crowded in rush hours as is that line's Times Square station. I've occasionally heard someone say 'Sorry' in New York, but not in Moscow. You do hear a lot of stuff, such as 'Citizens, stop shoving,' and 'Citizen, you're standing on my feet...
Docker's Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite...
...rest of the evening was spent in uneasy warfare between those who wanted to stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time...
Proclaiming an adage to the effect that "nothing is too good . . ." International Pictures has sent its researchers bustling off into the early days of the Republic for a talc of the days when John Adams was President of the United States and Philadelphia was something more than a lengthy stop on the Congressional Limited run. The result is a triangle--not the scheme of the researchers, of course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively...