Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual Junior-League-25-years-after sort of role, however, and her comic talents are barely exercised. Arthur Starch, as her son, alternately months and shouts his lines. And his boudoir transformation obviously seems as preposterous to him as the stilted lover scene through which the authors wring him in the first act. It is not his fault that the growing pains have a few audible creaks...
...stage. In the first act, when Isabel must prove worthy of interest, Miss Jones may well have had her lines on flash cards. Though her words had more conviction in later scenes, there remained the disturbing sense that she was hearing the director: "six steps to the left; wring hands." Miss Jones as Miss Jones learning a part has neither charm nor authority, and however much the role might suffer from over-acting, it dies when played hesitantly. In fumbling hands, the tragedy of Isabel is all too simple: she is a ninny...
...days before nonintervention became the U.S. doctrine. Having played his role of underdog to the hilt, Toriello wound up with a grandiloquent appeal to the Liberator Bolivar (who lies buried in Caracas) and won the conference's first ovation. Argentina's Foreign Minister rushed up to wring his hand. Said another South American delegate: "Ke said many of the things some of the rest of us would like to say if we dared...
...ball-hawking, ball-stealing and hard-driving offensive play, Oregon led 38-24. In the last period, Indiana's national champions managed to draw up to within seven points, then collapsed as Schlundt himself went out on fouls. Big Swede Halbrook dashed halfway across the floor to wring Schlundt's hand-partly in tribute, partly in pure high spirits at the upset in the making. Final score: Oregon State 67, Indiana 51. Scoring by the two centers: Halbrook 21, Schlundt...
...answered their question. After listening to repeated reports on Soviet strength, he abruptly announced that he was damned tired of hearing how helpless the West was before Soviet power. With eyes flashing, he told the men of SHAPE: "We are here to build the defenses of Europe, not to wring our hands at how bad they are ... I want to know from day to day what each one of you is doing about it. I want to hear from you how the defenses of Europe are increasing to meet the situation which paralyzes...