Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor took a long, self-righteous swallow of wine as the students counted their pfennigs to see if they could afford another. The obese waitress--spellbound by Glaubich's erudition--beamed at him as she had at the young Wehrmacht and SS officers who were her wartime clientele. Glaubich shyly smiled back, lit another Gold Dollar cigarette, and bent over the table toward his disciples...
...opera." By that he meant that he would write as melodiously as possible, use his ex-choirboy's knowledge of the voice to make things easy for the singers ("They've had a rather poor time of it for the last 30 years"). He also decided to swallow any fears he might have about sounding like Verdi or Puccini. Last week, ten months after the London première, the New York City Opera staged its version of Troilus and Cressida. It was a direct...
...test of a person on the left is what he gets done," he snapped, and pointed out that he had brought in the first public-ownership bill back in 1931. The Bevanites howled with rage. Morrison persisted: "You have to consider the jolly old electorate and what it will swallow. The British are not going to take in one election program the public ownership of all industry...
...cast can do little with the musical score and script. Eddie Albert in the title role is called upon to juggle, perform magic tricks, and swallow fire, in addition to the normal chores of musical comedy. He does these well, but it is difficult to evaluate his interpretation because Reuben's character is left so vague and undefined. Evelyn Lear as his girl gives a hrikingly uneven performance at various times, she manages to resemble Martha Raye, June Allyson, and Joan Crawford. Kaye Ballard, the brilliant comedienne of The Golden Apple, suffers most from the sparseness of the material...
...John Day, his bill was the only way to get it. Neuberger argued that no matter how long it took to get the dam, private utilities should not get the profits. Said he: "It isn't a partnership when one of the partners is allowed to swallow the other . . . I wouldn't care who owned General Motors if I could just have all the autos that come off the production line for the next 50 years...