Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant, returning from a swing through the western Harvard Clubs, will open his home speaking stand tomorrow night when he addresses the first meeting of the Class of '51 at 7:30 o'clock in Sanders Theater...
...eloquent tale." At the Grand Palais in Paris, he and other delegates were working 15 hours a day last week to finish Western Europe's response to the Marshall approach. They had little time for anything but the cold facts. The conference bureau had not sold a theater seat in two weeks. This strict attention to business had produced some results. One delegate reported on the conference's biggest achievement...
...Face. Last week, Moscow was barely recognizable even to those who knew it well. It seemed as though the entire Cosmetics Trust of the U.S.S.R. had gone to work, covering Moscow's wrinkled face with layers of magic makeup. Almost overnight the Bolshoi Theater turned a shade of blushing pink; other buildings were newly yellow, light green and blue. Reported a visitor: "It looks like an explosion in a paint factory...
...concerned with it is obviously trying very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...
...riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...