Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been no word indicating what names are being considered, but popular consensus around Yale points to Ohio's Taft brothers, Robert A. Y '10 and Charles P. Y. '18, as strong contenders, with Charles held the favorite...
Many players were bumped up in the Brown fracas, but at this point Art Valpey is only willing to commit himself on the status of two men: John White and Dan Cass join Charlie Walsh as definitely ineligible to face the Elis. The doctors will release word on the other doubtfuls tomorrow...
...tailored, severely handsome woman of 47 who never wastes a word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...
...have never yet retracted a word of . . . fair comment," boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...