Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current incarnation, Twelfth Night takes place on and in front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in this environment, its air of almost-sombreness has the effect of bringing the low comedy scenes into closer accord with the rest of the play than Shakespeare probably intended...
...thoughts were himself and the "innocent" young girl. Fu Tsun's turn came in November. The Chinese embassy warned him to wind up his studies by mid-December and return to his homeland. He complained to Polish friends: "I will be made to do manual labor. This will ruin my hands. My playing will be finished." He also learned that his father, a distinguished translator of French classics, had already been arrested in Shanghai on the charge of "translating without authorization" the works of Nobel Prizewinner Remain Rolland...
Wine Worship. As well he might, Belloc saw ruin coming to a divided Europe in the '20s and '30s. He was appalled by the Protestant aristocrats who ruled England's foreign policy and, he felt, knew nothing of the Catholic Continent. Things would have been different, he was sure, had the Stuarts kept their jobs. He decried also the English "illusion that the possession of wealth is an excellence, like courage, or charity." The U.S., where Belloc was a successful lecturer, fared little better; he called it "an amiable and pleasant lunatic asylum...
Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev's own. He is determined to hang...
...resulting from an auto crash; in New Orleans. Ott made Manager John McGraw's team when he was 16. Casey Stengel, then manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, asked for the boy, but irascible John McGraw snarled: "Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another 1,860, draw 1,708 bases on balls (all National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers...