Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jussi is looking forward to getting a few hints on histrionics before he sings on opening night at the Met next November. His assignment: the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, with Broadway Shakespearean Director Margaret Webster doing the directing and giving Jussi the hints...
...House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against the McConnell substitute: "A law without a penalty is simply good advice...
Irene Rich, 58, star of the silent screen who recently played the first woman President of the U.S. in Broadway's long-running As the Girls Go, was to be a bride for the fourth time. The groom-to-be: Utilities (Stone & Webster, Inc.) Executive George H. Clifford, 68, a widower...
...discovery made in the far reaches of Webster, which defines it as "imaginative projection of one's own consciousness into another being...
...dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart of their birthright...