Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Not to Weep. But the outcome, by all signs, was many weeks away. If they could help it, the Reds were not even going to let the charge come to the point of a legal decision. Inside & outside the court they did their best to delay, distract and confuse. The faithful, chanting "solidarity forever," marched in dogged droves outside the courthouse. City authorities assembled 400 policemen in the streets and in nearby buildings-just in case...
...vast difference between Britain's and France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked middle road between a free economy and socialism, rely almost entirely on U.S. help for survival; as a result France has one of Europe's weakest currencies...
Balfour, Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil, Leopold Amery and others helped him to hammer out the terms of the Balfour Declaration which promised to help the Jews establish a national home in Palestine. His enemies were chiefly the English assimilationist Jews, led by Lord Edwin Montagu. Says Weizmann: "There cannot be the slightest doubt that without outside interference-entirely from Jews -the draft would have been accepted . . . substantially as we submitted...
From Marrakech to Kalabahi. Perfectionist Porter once took singing lessons to help "place" his voice, which he has described as unpleasant. To see that justice was done his work, he spent hours last week hovering over Columbia recording sessions at which the orchestra and principals of Kiss Me, Kate worked on an album of the score. (One of his favorite performers is Ethel Merman, who has played in some of his biggest hits, Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, Something for the Boys, because, as she puts it, "I can boff out those lines the way he wants them...
...accident, which Porter seldom mentions and never complains about, has made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help cast a second company of Kiss Me, Kate, which may turn out to be the biggest smash of his career...