Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though perhaps too well-remembered, My Sister Eileen is till a very funny play. The comic repliques of the 1940 hit dominate the new production, but Wonderful Town integrates script and melody with great success. Paced by George Abbott's direction, the show completely skirts tedium and glides from dialogue to song without quash of gears on diminished quality. The further assets of a choice east headed by Rosalind Russell and handsome settings by Raonl Pene du Bois make Wonderful Town a seek and thoroughly delight ful show...
...numerous type (and at this time of year the resorts are lousy with 'em) is the "snowbunny." This term is usually mouthed with much contempt by those who "know how." It means that the poor guy hasn't had much experience. He asks straight as far as he can till he meets another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride...
...could, and promptly did. Senior Scientist Roy Fritz (who is working for a Ph. D. in entomology) and Nurse Albina Bozym flew west. For weeks they worked from early morning till late at night, checking on the Camp Fire Girls' recent illnesses. They found six more cases of malaria. The girls must have been infected at Lake Vera. Mosquitoes trapped there proved to be the disease-carrying kind. But who took the malaria there to begin with...
Afterwards, the Fremantles settled to a quiet country life in England, and Betsy's diary became filled with the domestic trivialities of a life fully enjoyed. Betsy amassed a brood of children, worried over their manners and education, "danced 24 couples till past four o'clock in the morning," and, as a matron of 19, sniffed that "the fashion now is to be almost naked, even old women show all their necks and back." Her happiness was in her marriage: "Mr. Fremantle very loving to his wife who is uncommonly attentive...
...span, Albert, his conductor and all 20 passengers soared off into space, leaped the widening gap and landed with a horrendous thump on the southern span six feet below. "I thought that might start going up too," said Albert, "so I just kept right on till I got to the other bank...