Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council lost to Boston College last night on the subject: "Resolved, That the United States should join in an economic union with Great Britain. Harvard debaters George I. Mulhearn '51 and Richard J. Stewart '51 took the negative. Last night's loss gives the debaters a record of four wins and two defeats...
...Metropolitan Opera House listened breathlessly as the great gold curtain closed to the last romantic bars of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. As the footlights went up and the curtain parted again, a roar of applause rose to the Met's gilded ceiling. Time after time, panting dancers took their bows, then skipped gracefully out of view. When at last a slender and dark-haired little ballerina appeared alone, the audience rose to its feet and cheered...
...girls, except that she was allowed to spend as much time dancing as she liked, and had a governess to tutor her in her other lessons. In 1927, when the family lived briefly in Louisville while Papa Hookham studied American cigarette-making machinery, Margaret could find no ballet teachers, took tap-dancing lessons instead...
...Cast. She got a chance to warm up. After her 16th birthday, she took over Markova's role in Ashton's Les Rendezvous. Already, for the conservative Morning Post, she had "some of that intoxicating quality always associated with the great dancers." After her first Swan Lake, the Daily Telegraph granted her "that rare title 'ballerina.' " Her first Giselle, at 17, was, said the News-Chronicle, "the partial fulfillment of a promise she makes every time she dances." By the time she was 20 she had completed the great classical trilogy with Sleeping Beauty...
Effusive Abe Spanel, board chairman of the International Latex Corp. (baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on Businessman Spanel and his ads, saying one was "a poetic construction well expressing the attitude of some demagogues of the extreme left ... A native of Russia and an admirer of the Soviet system might be pardoned in the error." The Journal-American headlined the column: AMERICAN PAPERS SELL ADVERTISING SPACE...