Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Relations Department is unique in many ways. Only three years old, it shows the strain of maturation in many of its limbs, but as it is growing, so it is strengthening and pushing out in new directions. First, many of its courses are taught by two, three and often a myriad of experts covering various topics. Being a nebulous discipline which contains more theory than fact, the opinions of more than one instructor are often necessary...
...Western statement this week: "Real wages have no longer depended on a worker's ability or energy, but on the accident of whether his employer had been in a position to include a substantial proportion of West marks in his wage packet. Those inequalities have thrown increasing strain upon the economic and social structure of the city...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...owner of the precious package. For 16 years, Liebman has been in & out of the Poconos, Broadway and Hollywood (he helped tailor a number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous). He thinks that turning out a highly professional show every week for TV is a "greater strain" than doing it for the stage. He was showing no particular strain last week over the news that he had a contented sponsor...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...