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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter Ferrer, a rare genius in the American theatre. This is the man who made Margaret Webster's Othello with his real and living Iago. He has at least equalled that triumph with Cyrano. This character, plagued by an obscene nose, must be "all things." After the first act, Ferrer makes the spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/25/1946 | See Source »

...Texas Co., Forest Oil Corp., Niagara Share Corp., United Gas Corp., La Gloria Corp., Gulf States Oil Co., Stone & Webster, Inc., Chicago Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Ersatz, Texas Style | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...word whose definition even Webster side steps. Rough approximation of its present U.S. meaning: anti-right-wing Republicans, anti-Southern Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New New Republic | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...feel like a frustrated frump in a frumenty, because I don't know what frumious means, and Webster's doesn't tell me. I knew Mayor Kelly was fulgid and fubsy, but I never before suspected his frumiousness [TIME, March 25]. You've been my revered fugleman for so long that I know you won't let me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Walter Wright Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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