Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HDC last night announced that the Honorable Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian delegate to the United Nations, will be an honorary sponsor to their production of "Adam the Creator' which opens in Sanders Theater next Tuesday. Both Masaryk and the Czechoslovakian ambassador to the United States, Dr. Juraj Slavik, will be on...
"Nothing can strengthen peace better than consistent opposition to aggression and oppression, in internal and international affairs alike, and clear, frank, and consistent loyalty to the principles of individual freedom and political liberty," Dallying said. He maintained that "two paramount facts" stand out in the Soviet post-war policy: (1...
His sharp tongue (he once described Novelist Sir Walter Scott as "a dwarf who is determined not to lose an inch of his stature"), his always unexpected views ("It gives one somewhat the desire to be buried," he remarked on seeing the tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo), his dogmatic epigrams...
". . . An unexpected humor, unfaltering analytical acuity, a beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or...
The ranks of Japan's organized labor received an unexpected reinforcement last week. A prostitutes' union formally announced its organization to the Supreme Command. The new union was made up of house girls, including many defrocked geishas, who had banded together to meet increasing competition from unhoused streetwalkers...