Word: booth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hurrying away from testifying before the House Appropriations Committee, he borrowed 150 from an aide and dialed a private number from a phone booth. Then Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. announced his decision to President Gerald Ford: he would let the British-French supersonic Concorde fly into and out of Washington and New York City, but only on a limited experimental and tightly controlled basis...
Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...BOOTH TARKINGTON
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
...determined terrorist can penetrate any security," warns Jordan Booth of the sheriffs department in Michigan's Wayne County. Short of airport officials' requiring every person entering an airport to carry an identity card or stopping everyone at the airport gate to check his person or his baggage-which in some cases would involve more than 100,000 people a day-some risks will continue...