Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of praises must come a word for John Holabird, whose transformation of the evils of Sanders Theater into good should set a target for succeeding generations to aim at from a distance. The use of the memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging...
...coast, 17 Hearstpapers dutifully spread fine phrases over their front pages. But the best anniversary story of the day appeared in only one Hearstpaper. A directive over the private wire from San Simeon read: "Chief does not want published in cities outside of San Francisco the 2,500-word . . . story covering 60 years of San Francisco Examiner under ownership and direction of Mr. Hearst...
...abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths due to the paste promptly declined. But last month Food & Drug's watchful inspectors got word. of a new paste menace, worriedly set out to trace the new outbreak to its source...
...exhilarating hum of high production and few strikes, everyone seemed to have forgotten the ugly word: recession. Last week, they were sharply reminded of it. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics stared into its crystal ball and found it filled with dark clouds. Unless steps are taken to bolster purchasing power, said BAE, the U.S. will probably have a recession toward the end of this year...
...reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...