Word: barnyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barnyard phenomenon was reported last week by the polite New York Evening Post as follows...
Sirs: I am a poor but honest employe of a Stock Exchange firm-trying to scratch out a living in a barnyard where worms are all but extinct. But regardless, I am preyed upon by a member of the firm, by name, Irving D. Rossheim, who early each Friday morning, at an hour wholly unnatural to him, comes to my desk and seizes my copy of TIME. And this, despite a copy which awaits him at home. Has a poor man no defense against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal...
...adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family. Roland Young is a self-satisfied naval officer who has a fussy curiosity about the domestic affairs of his friends. It is characters like these-minor personages, sketched with a caricaturist...
What may yet become the 20th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution moved swiftly through the House of Representatives toward probable passage. It was the hoary old proposition to rearrange the regular sessions of Congress so as to exile the "lame duck" from the legislative barnyard.* Also involved was a change in the date of the Presidential inaugural...
...seasons. Not even a middle-aged Wagnerian (Baritone Friedrich Schorr), who endeavored to impersonate swaggering Schwanda by oc- casionally skipping across the stage, seemed to dim the happy effect that Czech Composer Jaromir Weinberger got with his sophisticated scoring of a theme song on life and barnyard noises, a rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera. It has had over 1,000 performances, been translated into 14 languages. For the U. S. premiere last week Scenic Artist Joseph Urban designed a flaming Hell equipped with sewing-machine, typewriter, electric switchboard and elevator...