Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvation Army in the U.S.), a few thousand non-army paid employees, and a handful of unpaid doctors and dentists. Around the world, preaching salvation in 102 languages, there are only some 125,000 all told in the hosts of the late General William Booth. But like Joshua's army at Jericho, they multiply their strength by sheer ubiquity. Their coffee-&-doughnuts campaign in World War I, which so impressed U.S. doughboys, was carried on by fewer than 300 men and "Sals...
...plot brings a nobleman, who thinks he is broke, into service as a footman in the household of connoisseur Joshua Howard. Inevitably he falls in love with the old man's niece and amanuensis, and gets into numerous complications before the final dribbling denouement...
...sharp, unexpected, and often brilliant. Michael Wilding, as lord and footman, gets just the right blend of cynicism and playfulness, though his eyes do twinkle a bit too much on occasion, Anna Neagle is pleasantly attractive and eager in the female lead, and she also demonstrates that infuriating twinkle. Joshua, portrayed by Tom Walls is a marvelous English-gentleman type, both in word and deed...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...both cases, adjectives a size or two smaller might have proved a far better fit; or a distinction should have been made between the production and the show. For even more dazzling phenomena than Salesman and South Pacific themselves were the men who staged them: Elia Kazan and Joshua Logan. Director Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood...