Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's Bancroft is a stunning spectacle. As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster. There was a feeling that perhaps the black-stockinged beatnik was only playing herself. What would happen if she really had to act...
...turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where they are. He is all things to all men without any act...
...thought of the poison broadcast widely, without concern for so many innocents? Can it be legitimate to pander to morbid curiosity with details and descriptions that had better be left in the files of the police laboratories and the courts? Is it ever licit to use every criminal act, over which it would be better to draw a merciful veil, as an occasion for descriptions and reconstructions that are nothing more or less than handbooks for crime and incentives to vice...
...years since Congress passed the Sherman Act. no reputable businessmen have served a jail term for antitrust violations and none after pleading nolo contendere (no contest)-until last month. Then Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood, 67, of Columbus, Ohio set a precedent. He ordered four officials of hand implement manufacturing companies to serve 90 days in the federal penitentiary at Milan, Mich. On the way to surrender, Defendant John T. Mains, 56, former mayor of Greenfield, Ohio, put a bullet through his head. Last week Judge Underwood rejected a plea to commute the remainder of the terms of the other...
...ACT ONE, by Moss Hart. Playwright (You Can't Take It with You) and Director (My Fair Lady) Hart tells of his youthful trek from The Bronx to Broadway. Few memoirs, theatrical or otherwise, can equal this autobiography's suspenseful plot, zany supporting cast and surefire humor...