Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barclay stressed last night that the squad was limited to 12 not by design, but by material. "When the fall sport boys come out. I hope to make part of the present first team the second team" he said. Among those expected to increase Varsity strength are George Haupt-fuhrer, Chip Cannon, Ralph Petrillo, Willard McDaniel, and Dean Markham of the football squad and Dick Forster of the soccer team...
...eligible voters had approved it (9,000,000 abstained). The morose military hero asked his followers to vote for parties which opposed and would try to change the constitution. These adjurations helped the Radicals (centrists) and the rightists, but this political sector, though expected to gain some strength, was still far too weak to threaten the leftist coalition...
...skinny tomboy with red pigtails she liked to romp over to Grossmama's, where amateur violinists and cellists sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
After the Italian surrender, Malaparte did liaison work with the Italian liberation forces and the Allies. About this time the British arrested him on the strength of his past record, but turned him loose when OWI-man Percy Winner, once with I.N.S. in Rome, guaranteed his good conduct. He then toured Germany on a special mission for the Allied Psychological Warfare Branch. Now ex-Fascist Malaparte lives well in his flashy Capri villa. Kaputt, whatever the doubts as to its reliability, is a great hit in Italy, has become must reading in fashionable clubs and salons...
...even the wizardry of these performances and Garson Kanin's direction fail to hide the anti-climactic second act curtain and the heads-I-go-to-New-York-to-be-an-actress-tails-I-don't nature of the last act. In view of the strength of most of the play, however, these weaknesses should not be difficult to repair, and by the time it gets to Broadway "Years Ago" should rate as top-notch theatre. Even as it is, there hasn't been anything better around town all year...