Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who concern themselves with such far-sighted matters feel that the only way out of this impending crisis is by decentralization of the theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
...keep date appeal on a verbal basis, the two groups were separated by a curtain strung across the studio. Albert Feldman '50, Mark Carroll '50, and Signature's Irene Tinker '49 moderated the action...
...Angeles, Carmen Miranda, who in private life is Mrs. David Sebastian, was feeling best of all. The high-strung Brazilian with the high-riding hats announced that she was going to have a baby, her first, some time next...
When high-strung Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, juggled his line-up last week and lost a game, there were public mutterings that maybe Club President Bill Veeck should have fired him last year, after all. One afternoon Boudreau sat listening to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game. He raked his hair with his fingers and exclaimed, "Jeez! Jeez!" every time the Sox scored. The Sox, under square-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy, seemed a shade less panicky. They had power to burn-what they prayed for was pitchers able to last nine innings. This week...
...rough & rowdy Washington Times-Herald, the fluttery, fastidious little man seemed as out of place as the publisher's high-strung poodles. Apple-cheeked Charles Bell Porter was no newsman but an esthete, a collector of rare stamps and Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant...