Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...
When the Town Hall is burning, the jail opened, and the looters swarming in the streets, Huguenau, the deserter, perceives Esch, the visionary, walking ahead of him. "Should he knock him over the head with the rifle butt? No, that would only be silly, what was needed was something that would end the business for good. And then it overwhelmed him like an illumination-he lowered his rifle, reached Esch with a few feline tango-like leaps, and ran the bayonet into his angular back. To the murderer's great astonishment, Esch went on calmly for a few steps...
Voice of the People, a Tokyo radio program devoted to the living arts, last week told its listeners about the live art of butt-snatching. Some fine points...
...pick up butt while it is still lying by person who threw it away- especially if thrower is from over there [the U.S.]. Might have hand stepped...
Their narrow escapes were uncanny. Lewis tumbled from a 300-ft. cliff and caught himself 20 feet from the top. A private was thrown from his horse almost atop a grizzly, hit it over the head with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded...