Word: abednego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Common denominator of U. S. ceramists is whimsy. Sculpture at the show ranged from Viktor Schreckengost's Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, three haloed Negroes smiling down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...
...confused with the Babylonian fire-walker, Meshach, of the famed firm of Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego (Daniel...
...movie goers know, deserters get their desserts in the desert and that is exactly what happens here. Four men, whose names we did not get because of an impediment in the speech of the captain (but whom, for purposes of clearness here, we will call Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) are cast into the Fleming furnace but Victor tries in vain to be the king of Glory. This is the plot...
Daniel (Warner Raxter) is frequently heard above the den and it is he who leads a German, a Russian, and a Hobokenknight to desertion and subsequent traitorism. For all of this we are indebted to the exotic French seductress (Myrna Loy). She meets one of the comrades, an Russian, Abednego. But then, she never comes over to Meshach...