Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juno and the Paycock (by Sean O'Casey; produced by Edward Choate & Arthur Shields in association with Robert Edmond Jones). Flung on the Broadway pavement many times since it was minted in Dublin in 1924, Juno and the Paycock still rings out like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
...tragic last act of Juno and the Paycock is spoiled by wanton melodrama. Too late, too violently, O'Casey pushes the son and daughter into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without...
...extremely inadequate cover, fighting has gone on in the Dies Committee for a long time; at many a hearing observers were more struck by threshings and heavings under the blankets than by the testimony. Opposed to Chairman Dies were California's Voorhis, New Mexico's Dempsey, Massachusetts Casey. Basically the fight was theoretical-to Martin Dies U. S. liberals were akin to Communists and Fascists in so far as they believed in Marxism and tried to create a "bureaucratic capitalism" that would be for the U. S. what Communism is in Russia, Fascism is in Italy...
...stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...