Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
...solid place for himself among U. S. writers. Yaleman (1919) who escaped the "Yale literary renaissance" but not the War, he joined the U. S. literary colony in Paris after the Armistice, stuck it out for five years. In Paris he knew "everybody," contributed to such magazines as Broom, transition, Gargoyle, wrote a Dada novel, The Eater of Darkness. Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back...
...hammer menacingly and shouted: "Everybody go away from here! Mind your own business! Our baby is sick! You make her sick! Leave us alone! God sent the baby to us with two eyes. I am going to send her back to God with two eyes. . . ." Mrs. Vasko shook a broom. Police cleared and roped off the street...
...sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
...James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...