Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...
Georgia Sothern, Grand Old Lady of Undress, suffered a routine contretemps when police arrested her after a show in Wilmington. She was fined $125 and costs for lewdness in a tent...
...weeks after the uprising that freed Prague in May 1945, Charles University reopened. Though there was room for scarcely 10,000 students, 19,189 stormed the gates. Every last one was admitted. Classes ran in shifts in unheated lecture rooms, movie houses, dance halls and even in a circus tent. While students scribbled, professors dictated "textbooks" from memory...
President Conant diagnosed Russia's leaders as "fanatic believers in a consis- tent policy which rune back to Marx. According to this philosophy," he said, "they believe themselves pioneers who will eventually usher in a utopian...
...Glen Taylor is no fool. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he got little formal education, made up for it by wolfing every volume on social and economic matters he could lay his hands on. He herded sheep for a while, for several years made a living as a tent-show cowboy in a Western stock company...