Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing room. Of course both axioms are vigorously hedged: Shakespeare should be read, too, just as children should occasionally be heard. But reading "The Winter's Tale" before seeing the current grandiose and interpretively satisfactory Theatre Guild production is less profitable and less necessary than is reading, say, "The Tempest" before seeing a stylized Margaret Webster...
...fleet which stood off Okinawa not only came to stay, it had to stay. The 6,000 to 7,000 of Japan's youngest men who flew Japan's oldest planes were quite as inextricably committed; they were locked into the mortal vortex of the divine tempest-Kamikaze...
Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, 36, plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
...costumes for the present production are Elizabethan, but simple, unlike the gilt edged robes that marred an otherwise stylized "Tempest," or the even more plushy ones of Maurice Evans' "Macbeth...