Word: faithless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great-grandfather, as a place for staging amateur theatricals. The first important performance, a family diarist noted, took place on a "clear moonlight evening" on the day after Christmas in 1855, and was marred only by the fact that "some of our actors were delayed by a faithless hackman." Generation after generation, family actors staged everything from Henry IV and She Stoops to Conquer to melodramas such as The Brigands of Lodi and The Dead Shot. Famed Actress Fanny Kemble appeared at the Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience...
...hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry, You're Not the Type to the Faithless Friend to the Marriage of Ambition to the McCarthy Blacklist to the Job as a Waiter at Sardi's. In the end, naturally, there is the Big Break, the Smash Hit and the Name Up There in Lights...
Labor Bossism. "Where leadership has been faithless in the fiscal management of union affairs, these conditions must be fumigated. The people of the U.S. deserve representatives who will pass such legislation...
...Whisk War. In 1827, angered by an intricate financial deal in which he felt he was being cheated by the French government, Khoja Hussein, the last Dey of Algiers, called in French Consul Pierre Deval, charged him with being a "wicked, faithless, idol-worshiping unworthy," and struck him three times with a peacock-feather fly whisk. After brooding over this outrage for three years, France finally saw it as an opportunity, sent General Louis de Bourmont and 37,000 men sailing south from Toulon. Within three weeks of their landing, De Bourmont's troops paraded in triumph through Algiers...
...handsome season, NBC's young and sprightly opera company presented a sparkling, two-hour show of Mozart's artful Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). The cynical, silly, and charming tale-two gentlemen of Naples undertake to disprove the theory that all women are faithless by pretending to go off to the wars and returning in disguise as two gentlemen from Albania lately landed from a balloon, lay siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart...