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...course, was the HDC. In the club's early years, it stuck to the policy of producing only plays written by students or recent graduates; but after the first World War HDC decided that it could not compete with the Workshop in this field and went on a new tack. In the next two decades HDC devoted itself almost exclusively to giving American premieres to foreign playwrights, a policy which attracted considerable interest in its productions. Among the foreign writers to whom HDC gave first American productions were Maeterlinck, Guitry, Galsworthy, Cocteau, and A. A. Milne. The club also went...
...defense plan to the court, and he punched the surprised man on the arm. Instantly, the lawyer leaped up, extracted a copy of the Koran from his breast pocket, and on it swore he had done no such thing. By this time Mossadegh was off on another tack, while the lawyer sat stiffly unhappy...
Once the committee has stated its purpose, it cannot then, according to Javitt's proposals, tack in a fresh direction with each gust of public interest. The testimony of all witnesses called by the committees must be "germane to the subject so stated." This would end the race between committees to subpoena a person suddenly in the news...
...choreographer who jimmied ballet right into the plot of Oklahoma! and started a Broadway trend; balletomanes know her as the one who has done most to bring oldtime American themes to the ballet stage (Rodeo, Fall River Legend). Last week Choreographer de Mille was off on a new tack: with her own company of 19, she set out to test a hunch that there is room for an outfit offering dance, pantomime and song in a repertory rich in American themes...
...rounded the windward mark of the 8|-mi. triangular course, billowed out his spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet...