Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Undependables. In Fort Scott, Kans., Farmer John Hall, who had heard that music made cows generous, installed a radio in his barn-to make his womenfolk want to help with the milking. The experiment failed...
George Washington Slept Here (Warner) is an amusing picturization of the barn-theater hit about a back-to-the-land antique addict and his strictly modern-convenience wife, who bought a decrepit house in which George Washington was said to have slept. But the leading roles have been switched. In the film Ann Sheridan is a Duncan Phyfey wifey. Jack Benny is her harassed, urban-minded husband...
...same time, Lemay organized and trained a creditable chorus of 250 voices and a Junior Symphony of 90 members. Duluth feels the orchestra would have died a natural death in Flaaten's barn except for the enthusiasm, patience, tact, humor and musical ability of Paul Lemay...
...peasant showed Edouard a sawed-off shotgun buried in the Galle barn, and Edouard soon began to wonder whether one of the family had not committed the murder. It could not be Andre; it could not be Daughter Franchise. But what about Son Blaise who insulted Edouard at every turn? Or his Communist buddy Maurice, who worked in the Galle house and had once murdered an enemy...
Later Seabrook relapsed, turned the barn at his swagger Dutchess County home into a scientific "research" laboratory. With "research girls" for guinea pigs, Seabrook and his friends "evoked . . . 'gods' and 'devils,' " dabbled in witchcraft and clairvoyance. Once more Seabrook began to drink, was cured again by an impetuous girl who forced him to plunge his elbows into boiling water. This treatment shocked him back to reality, made him realize that "the only way to write a book is to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of a chair -and write it." Result...