Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...proud of was his own failure to earn more than ?6 by novels and casual writing before he was 40. To the hostile, Shaw's trotting to Moscow and his defense of tyrants seemed a mixture of cynicism, contemptible prudence, and an old mountebank's determination to keep in the limelight; a degeneration from the noble pages of The Intelligent Woman's Guide...
...Sister," the old man told Nurse Gwendoline Howell, "you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die." Before the next dawn, George Bernard Shaw had lapsed into final unconsciousness. A little over 24 hours later, the 94-year-old philosopher, playwright, professional pixie and self-styled "Bishop of Everywhere" was dead...
...talc acts as an irritant. The sac becomes inflamed and much more blood courses through it; then it adheres to the heart muscle, and its blood-gorged vessels throw out branches into the muscle. These branches increase the muscle's blood supply and, hence, its power to keep the heart beating...
...Philip II), Argentine Soprano Delia Rigal, new Italian Mezzo Fedora Barbieri, and the Americans Jerome Hines (the Grand Inquisitor) and Robert Merrill-through stage movements blocked out long before. She had cut down most of the operatic arm-flailing ("the less acting you do the better"), tried to keep them from staring dead ahead at Conductor Stiedry for the beat. Exhausted Margaret Webster hoped she had succeeded in her effort to "prevent the eye from too grossly contradicting...
Other football winners last week: ¶ Unbeaten Oklahoma over Colorado, 27-18, for its 27th victory in a row. ¶ Unbeaten California over favored Washington, 14-7, to keep the Golden Bears rolling toward the Rose Bowl. ¶ Unbeaten Kentucky, on its record the top team in the South, over Florida, 40-6. ¶Unbeaten Princeton over Colgate, 45-7, for the Tigers' tenth in a row. ¶ Ohio State, beaten only once this year, over Northwestern, 32-0, in a demonstration of the touchdown power (averaging 43 points a game) that has won Ohio a ranking...