Word: caine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than the "robust comedy" which Miss Hughes wants, the mellowness and restraint of Norman Lloyd and Mark Smith seemed to me a perfect interpretation...
...natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
...hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin and Archibald MacLeish...
Last Feb. 5, Deputy Sheriff Jerry Combs threatened to arrest Brown Howard and his brother Tom, who were raising Cain at a relief office in Jackson, the county seat. One of the Howard boys shot Jerry Combs dead. Three weeks later, Lewis Combs met Sheriff Deaton's one-armed son, Deputy Sheriff Fred Deaton. The Saturday crowd at the Jackson post office saw Lewis Combs pull his gun, saw Fred Deaton do the same with his lone right hand. Lewis Combs wounded Fred Deaton, who killed Lewis Combs. Last March 16, a bus carrying Deputy Sheriff Wilson Deaton passed...
Come-on for the next program: Shall Eve tell Cain and Abel of their parents' past? "Does she fear that the revelation of her guilt will cause her sons to lose their love and respect for her?" (Organ music...