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Word: walke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Stars Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Despite a real knack for phrasemaking and some fine whimsical Irish fun, Where Stars Walk hasn't the faintest sense of direction, nor the slightest conception of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss a small harem of hens until three weeks before a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...walk-ins Thursday and the 18 on Friday added just enough to meet the quota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Blood Drive Gleans 200 Pints | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

...have destroyed the identity of the City of London and have purloined its name. ... It is now to be submerged by the constituencies of Shoreditch and Finsbury.* There are a lot of very good people in Shoreditch and Finsbury, but I really do not think they will wish to walk about under the false pretense of being the City of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thunder & Grumbles | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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