Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discriminating geisha girls came near to swooning over him. Austere drama critics agreed that no Kabuki actor had mastered his art more perfectly. A great lover, onstage and off, lithe, handsome, 64-year-old Nizaemon Kataoka was Japan's Van Johnson, Alfred Lunt and John Barrymore rolled into...
...Miranda goes, with high hopes and a new Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...
...once again to the Soviet Government as the greatest menace to the world's peace. He said with deliberate emphasis: "I will not allow that anything said by others should weaken my regard and admiration for the Russian people."* But whether Russia takes "an honored place in the van of world organization . . . depends only on the decisions taken by the handful of able men who under their renowned chief hold all the 180,000,000 Russians and many more outside Russia in their grip...
...southpaw, looks like the nearest thing to a freshman Dizzy Dean. He has a deadly sidearm motion that should baffle right-handed hitters, has a curve ball that can turn a corner. The Dodgers thought enough of him before he entered the Navy to give up a seasoned pitcher, Van Lingle Mungo, in a straight trade. Like most southpaws, Hatten is regarded with some suspicion as a wild man. Already some tall stories are being told about him. Sample: once when his team was just one run ahead at Minneapolis, he deliberately walked three men, just...
...remembers the Thanksgiving morning in 1902 when a moving van drew up to 26 Jones Street, which had been an anarchist hideout on "the Street of 40 Thieves." She and her Russian-born husband had picked this vermin-filled, draughty place for a settlement house. Greenwich Villagers peering suspiciously from windows figured "we were just another family moving in," Mrs. Sim says. They were glad to be accepted that way; "we did not want to be regarded as strangers bent on uplift...