Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration...
...pleasantly ruffled by Gil Lamb, the man with the ludicrously disjointed skeleton. Bert Lahr is everything comical from the outdoor man who rhapsodizes on the uses of wood, to the juggler of jazz who squeezes all the latest kinder-gartenish pranks in noise into one amazing din. But the array is next to infinite, with Paul Haakon dancing, Gracie Barrie singing, and an abundant troupe of resplendent beauties trapsing about in the most enticing outfits. The entertainment, being far from uniform, is also not uniformly good. "De gustibus" you know, and what looks like joyous lustiness to some will strike...
...sister may one day be the Queen of Catholic Italy, has found that the Franco-Belgian Alliance of 1920 has now become an alliance of Belgium with a French Government composed of radicals, led by a Jewish Premier and bound by a treaty of alliance with Soviet Russia. This array of ominous facts was in the back of every Belgian subject's mind as he read the words of his King...
...cables began pouring into London from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in the opinion of the British residency in Palestine, was emerging from the Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment was issued to them, and shown to transports for Palestine. One battalion each of the King's Coldstream and Scots Guards was left in Britain but the rest of the First Division...
...arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from the comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie...