Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hobnailed boots, American girls in nylon dresses-were" also gorging themselves on musical goodies as long as they could stay at the table. With a swirl and a flourish down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh's third and already famed International Festival of Music and Drama was under way...
...some three years, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra had been groaning under the ills of insurrection in the ranks, irregular support from the public, the musical tastes of Conductor Karl Krueger and the uncompromising management of Board President Henry H. ("I like this way") Reichhold (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week it looked as if the ills might prove fatal, though not before President Reichhold, the symphony's chief supporter, had delivered himself of remarks at the deathbed...
...Secretary of State, Pius XII became interested in the ancient tombs uncovered by Vatican workers burrowing below ground to check on the foundations supporting St. Peter's dome. When he became Pope, he gave orders for further investigations. For the past nine years, delicate digging has been under way beneath the great basilica. An official account of these secret labors is reported to be in preparation, perhaps to be made public at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1950. Delicate Matter. Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from its able Vatican reporter, Camille...
...mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...
...born at all. Richard the Lion Heart was England's dashing monarch and knighthood was in flower; but at 20, Willie sat his horse like a sack of meal, rattled in his 12th Century armor like an ill-packed skeleton and couldn't get out of the way of his own lance and sword...