Word: strand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count. England was the country that all we Europeans loved and admired. We clothed our bodies in British clothes and fed our minds with the words of British intellectuals. It was smart to read British newspapers, and we sincerely enjoyed such nice magazines as Nash's and the Strand. If we did see some American newspapers, we would look at them suspiciously and leave them to those strange Europeans who had been to the States and had caught a touch of madness...
...first case under the new act came up last week in London's musty Strand Law Courts. British War Bride Violet Benner sued for a divorce from ex-G.I. Wilbert Roy Benner of Austin, Texas. The judge, noting that Mrs. Benner was getting free legal aid, said to her counsel: "You are making history." Reminding the judge that his client had gotten a cut rate under the act, Wilbert Benner's counsel added: "I think we both...
...sides of the record were on the hit parade for the eleventh time. Sales had boomed to more than a million and a quarter. The Weavers had moved to Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, before the end of the month were scheduled to double into Broadway's Strand Theater for a total of $2,250 a week. After that, there would be more recording dates, and theater and club offers from 30 cities...
Last week, after a successful trip to the West Coast, Shearing was at Manhattan's Strand Theatre for his first big-theater appearance. What jazz fans heard was a far cry from the feverishly disorganized, shrilly dissonant music that had made bop box-office poison in a lot of places. Shearing's music was sherbet-cold. Backed by a vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums, he played his piano as though he were tapping on tuned icicles...
...shabby blocks down Ninth Street from the New Gayety, the 2,000-seat Strand was about ready last week to end its 25 years as a movie house and become a legitimate theater. Balked in its attempt to lease the old Belasco from the Government, which uses it as a Treasury Department storehouse, the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) expected to close a deal soon to take over .the Strand...