Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dialogue there are enough "prithees," "goodwives," and "forsooths" to clog the collective gullet of The Lambs' club. As for the problem of delineating character, it is solved simply. Characters express emotion by changing color-from pink to grey, scarlet, dull red and "glistening" chalk white, until the fascinated reader feels like the chameleon, which is said to become a nervous wreck when nudged across a plaid bedspread...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
...essence of espresso is speed," explained Morris Yarrow, proprietor of the new Cafe Mozart, as he brought out two cups. "The process is the reverse of tea making, where you let the tea infuse slowly into the water." At the Plympton Street cafe, abstract paintings have replaced the chalk drawings of the old Capriccio, while uniform black tables and unpainted chairs contribute a slight austerity to Yarrow's coffee house...
...performance was no surprise to anyone−not to the chalk players who had watched Neji win Belmont's Grand National just the week before, nor to Alfred Patrick Smithwick, who is the chestnut champion's pilot, nor to his brother Daniel Michael Smithwick, who nursed Neji into shape for the race of his life. These days the only steeplechase surprise is when a horse handled by Pat and Mike Smithwick is shut out of a big purse...
Storekeepers in shops for blocks around scuttled under their counters. Women and children fled as the battling spread sporadically through the town, but not all escaped. One 18-month-old baby was shot on its mother's back. Last week police were able at last to chalk up a partial list of the casualties: 40 dead in the city morgue, another 30 wounded, in the native hospital. As tension continued to mount in the native townships, Johannesburg's police called in army help in a desecrate effort to reestablish law and order...