Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Advice for theatrical aspirants is pretty cheap," mused Lahr, "but there is no 'open sesame' which will produce success. A college education is by no means necessary for this success. Talent is a thing which you either have or you haven't, and that's what they pay off on...
Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what...
Among the world's classic novels, the Chinese are peculiar. They are the world's longest (one runs to 127 chapters), oldest (some date back 700 years), most thickly populated (often include 100 characters). Their authors are mostly obscure. But what particularly distinguishes them is their style. Aimed...
Moment in Peking is by no means such a jumble as suggested by its cast of characters-not only three generations of three prolific families, together with in-laws, but concubines, servants, friends and enemies as well. What makes Author Lin's "little talk" coherent is the central position...
A man with a big stick is loose in America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost...