Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour de force...
...will be the guest of Arthur N. Holyoke, professor of Government, at a luncheon preceding the tour...
...worked for unity. The Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (who had just returned from a peace tour in the turbulent North-West Frontier Province), sent two emissaries to London. Their report stressed the danger of dissolution, but contained no suggestion that the British remain in India beyond next year's deadline...
Margaret Truman, whose singing teacher said her voice was "much, much better" than when she made her radio debut eight weeks ago, signed a contract to make her "in person" debut at Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque next week. It would be the start of a tour, with more concerts in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma...
...mind, and then write a series about it. Brisk and brilliant Barbara Ward, who at 32 is a kind of younger, softer-voiced, English edition of Dorothy Thompson, went at it in a big way. Her research project turned into a coast-to-coast lecture tour, with radio dates and extra speeches thrown in. She gave as many interviews as she got, and never ran out of breath or big, round statements. When a Washington reporter asked her to "say something weighty," she heaved him one: "Well, the cost of world order is the cost of American full employment. Think...