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That was a rhyming reference to the title of Christopher Fry’s 1948 play about a woman’s resistance to a witchcraft trial, The Lady’s Not for Burning.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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That was a rhyming reference to the title of Christopher Fry’s 1948 play about a woman’s resistance to a witchcraft trial, The Lady’s Not for Burning.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The main signs of his continuing existence to be seen in the West End came from a transfer to the St Martin's theatre from Bury of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince (1968), with Baker in the Laurence Olivier role of the Regent; and his tour of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (1971), led by Derek Jacobi, which reached the Old Vic.
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Plus, the script by Christopher Fry was so complicated and the language so contrived that she didn't feel she would be able SINATRA to memorise all of her lines, at least not without a great deal of effort and concentration.
Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997
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The main signs of his continuing existence to be seen in the West End came from a transfer to the St Martin's theatre from Bury of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince (1968), with Baker in the Laurence Olivier role of the Regent; and his tour of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (1971), led by Derek Jacobi, which reached the Old Vic.
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I don't care if it turns out that they were written by the 20th-century playwright Christopher Fry, who, frustrated when the verse dramas he wrote fell out of fashion, time-traveled back to the Elizabethan age where he would be better appreciated.
NYT > Home Page By BEN BRANTLEY 2011
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Between them they acted in more than 100 productions in London's West End, including 28 in which they both had roles, among them "The Fourposter," Shaw's "Heartbreak House" and Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed."
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011
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"We saw that when we put the cuffs on, they responded similarly to young people doing traditional high-intensity resistance exercise," said UTMB graduate student Christopher Fry, the lead author of the paper.
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"We saw that when we put the cuffs on, they responded similarly to young people doing traditional high-intensity resistance exercise," said UTMB graduate student Christopher Fry, the lead author of the paper.
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In 1969, in a card called "Below The S.rface," he praised T.S. Eliot and his friend and fellow finder-of-words, Christopher Fry, for having turned poetry from stylized diction to natural diction, loving the way that Fry was able to impart "an agreeable colloquialism" to his poetic drama, and praising both Kipling and S.einbeck for their ability to render "the technical and difficult, non technical and easy."
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