Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This courtesy was extended at my own personal expense in behalf of the P.O. Department as an expression of love and good will at Christmas time ... I certainly did not want to stop this year, the first year we are third class. I don't want the public to think that because we are third class we are not willing to give this extra service as we did when we were smaller and more insignificant...
Malenkov recalled that World War I had brought the Bolshevik revolution, World War II the Soviet sweep-up of Central Europe and China. After such massive gains did the Politburo fear another war? "A third world war . . ." said Malenkov, "will be the grave . . . for the whole of world capitalism...
...through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock (the corps de ballet) huddling and quivering in terror before the evil magician...
...snowflakes in The Nutcracker, more experienced Sadler's Wellsians laughed at the serious little girl who spent half an hour in the wings, warming up for a five-minute role. But Margot was a perfectionist, then as now: she still rehearses the entire third act duet with Partner Helpmann just before each performance of Sleeping Beauty...
Daily Herald. "The Pic" now in third place with a 4,734,000 circulation, manages to cram its pages with sex, invariably in the guise of deploring pornography and impropriety. Sample: when a schoolmaster and his 10-year-old girl pupils went off into the woods after watching a school sex-instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just...