Word: ado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With great ado he summoned the four parents and their disputed infants before a "court." Benched together were a criminologist, an anthropologist, a dermatologist, an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist, an obstetrician, a pediatrist, a pathologist. The scientists inspected parents and progeny minutely. Mr. Watkins, a traffic-manager, scrutinized the boy whom the Bambergers' possessed, suddenly cried: "His hair is turning red. He's mine. My baby by my first wife has red hair." The "court" ordered him to hush, retired for the day to write out their individual decisions...
...fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...heels of America's only permanent Shakespeare company come the Stratford Players, with the proud position of representing Shakespeare in his native city, and the prestige that the patronage of the King of England gives to them. "Much Ado About Nothing" is no mean touchstone of their dramatic merit on their first night in a city; and they passed the difficult test with ease. Starless they are not, in spite of the critics' forecasts: rather there is an abundance of actors of outstanding ability, a group that comes somewhere near to the ideal of an all-star cast that...
Monday--"Much Ado About Nothing...