Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martha Scott, who once expected to a teacher, got her A.B. in 1934 at the University of Michigan, Miss Bishop is no unfamiliar story. Born in Jamesport, Mo. (pop. 761), daughter of an electrical engineer, Martha took up dramatics in high school to get over an inferiority complex After college she worked awhile in a department store at $11.50 a week, finally got a job in Detroit's civic repertory theatre, moved on to Manhattan. She belongs to the "sensible" school of Hollywood actresses, dresses sloppily in slacks and checked blouse, drives her own Buick convertible, stays away from...
Lloyd George was asked; but he said he was too old. The Duke of Windsor hinted that he would like the job; but he was not asked. Across London's area of rumor, a whole parade of names passed-familiar names, unfamiliar names, here a man who knew Britain's needs intimately, there one who could talk slices of turkey with Mr. Knudsen...
...first time in steel history. A month later, they dropped the price of steel by $4 a ton too. Their hope was to stay above their break-even point of 55% of capacity. By November they were not only at 96% of capacity, but confronted by an unfamiliar shortage in their coke and ore supplies. They even found themselves accused of not having capacity enough...
...didn't. When she stepped on the stage at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell one night last summer, before the Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Alexander Smallens, she had never sung with an orchestra. She had not been rehearsed for this concert. She had just been handed an unfamiliar arrangement of two songs from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Someone had stepped on her gown and ripped it. But the chunky, dignified, dark brown Negro soprano let loose a voice for which everyone, including Conductor Smallens, predicted a future. Last week, 26-year-old Soprano Lewis made...
...game marks the first time this year that the schoolboys have played outside hockey, they will, if past performances indicate anything, present the Freshmen with a seasoned team. Last year at Concord the S. P. S. boys knocked the 1943 team out of the undefeated ranks, and while the unfamiliar indoor ice may handicap them somewhat, the outcome is far from certain...