Word: broomsticks
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...Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen-age novels (Girl Trouble, etc.) that compete with adult books...
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke...
...Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear...
...imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...Jordan's concern, we hope that the more aesthetic horrors afforded by women on wheels added to his fear What could be a more terrifying sight at nine in the morning than a shaggy-maned mannikin with powder-glazed eyes swirling down Mass. Ave. like a fugitive from a broomstick brigade? Such a sight has sent many an Advanced Standing Freshman reeling into academic probation besides delaying his emotional maturation...