Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certain other resemblances to "South Pacific" should not be overlooked. There is a musical-play within a musical-play, in this instance a Siamese ballet version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Jerome Robbins. The ballet is clever and colorful, but it also shows that the court of Siam and the Hammerstein concept of grass-roots America can be juxtaposed only so far without becoming ludicrous. The ill-fated, sub-plot love affair of "South Pacific" is repeated in "The King and I," and again the man involved dies. This time it's not very effective...
...World Peace Council is like Uncle Toms Cabin without the bloodhounds. The hero is very good and patient, the villain is very villainous, the audience knows just when to cheer and when to hiss. Last week the World Peace Council opened in Berlin with the regular cast (not a road company...
Gradually, the planes improved. Ford's famed Tri-Motor appeared with a cabin with room for 16. In 1929 came the crate-like, twin-engine Curtiss Condor, a 21-place goliath, followed in a few years by Douglas' famed...
...chance passer-by gets the credit, in a popular legend, for saving the brand-new life of Abraham Lincoln, born 142 years ago this week in an insanitary cabin near Hodgensville, Ky. Soon after the future President came into the world under the supervision of a rural midwife, according to the story now retold by Chicago's Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, a neighbor named Isom Enlow "happened by." Finding the newcomer blue with cold, Neighbor Enlow set matters to rights by pouring down the baby's throat some melted turkey fat, which he carried to lubricate...
...Housley stood by the door, coolly advising her passengers to "take your time." One panic-stricken woman crawled along the aisle away from the door and toward the nose of the plane. Another woman screamed: "Get my baby." Frankie could have jumped. Instead, she turned back into the flaming cabin...