Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour-long revue rivals Hollywood and dwarfs Broadway. In less prosperous times, the Music Hall turned out a new show every week. In 1948, twelve shows spanned the year. But against a Broadway musical's two months of rehearsal and tryout, Leonidoff & Co. rehearse a new show just ten days-while playing...
When the Russians came, Szent-Gyorgyi thought at first that they might bring democracy. He was elected to Parliament as one of the ten "cultural representatives" provided for in the new constitution. Says he, with scientific understatement: "After two years I became disappointed and left my country." He delights in showing in pantomime the differences between Nazi and Communist techniques-the clomping, hobnail boot approach of the Nazis, the sly sneakup of the Communists...
...brisk, tireless little woman, with a kind of Helen Hokinson figure, Minnie Guggenheimer, with a lot of help from her wealthy lawyer-husband, also finds time to keep up three or four charities, a ten-room Park Avenue apartment and a New Jersey summer estate...
Owlish, excitable Ralph Coghlan (rhymes with oglin') has a singular facility for making people mad. In ten often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...
...peak, the Post sold 15,000 copies of its English edition, 200,000 of its Chinese edition Ta Mei Wan Pao). As early as 1932 Editor Gould warned against Japanese aggression and, when a made-in-Japan puppet Chinese regime took over Shanghai, the Post was bombed and ten Chinese staffers were assassinated; Editor