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...biggest dictionary in the world: in its 2,552 pages, the DAE defines more than 50,000 items, about one-tenth the number listed in an unabridged Webster. But the DAE is pretty comprehensive for what it is: a lexicon of words and turns of speech especially identified with the U.S. before 1900-whether or not they had once been used elsewhere...
...Cherry Orchard (translated from the Russian of Anton Chekhov by Irina Skariatina; produced by Carly Wharton and Margaret Webster) is usually considered Chekhov's masterpiece. To some people it may seem, with the passage of time, to have rather more aura than substance, to offer only a picture of impotent wills where Chekhov's The Three Sisters makes a drama of them. But certainly, with its gallery of weak, foolish, charming aristocrats, The Cherry Orchard has a fragrance and touching gaiety to be found in no other Chekhov play...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
...most promising young British actresses of her generation. She shared a handsome flat with her handsome mother in brightest Mayfair. She swapped fancy conversational popcorn with Bernard Shaw, was friend, colleague and mental ping-pong partner of people like Noel Coward, Sylvia Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Webster. In two years, during which she had only two weeks' vacation, she worked in no fewer than eight plays. Nearly all of them were flops. But Miss Garson was never a flop. She had ability. She had presence. She had a ferocious and exacting belief in herself. And she had an almost...
...feature of her anatomy. The term has made the dictionary. Says Mae: "Sort of makes me feel like I started a second front of my own. I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but that's the first time Webster's given me the call...