Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress Stapleton had the ungrateful chore of playing a woman of monumental stupidity...
Hopkins sleeps in white silk pajamas, but Tom soon realizes that he is no softie. Behind the manners of a Southern gentleman lurks a mind like a shark's mouth. Hopkins is not only a genius for work but for good works. It is Tom's big chore throughout much of the novel to write a first draft of a Hopkins speech kicking off a national campaign on mental health. Before the speech is finally given, Tom has to take a bumpy ride over his own well-scarred mental highway. It is stalked by the ghosts...
...knife, one of the best all-round weapons of its sort ever invented (useful for any chore from spreading butter to disemboweling enemies, also good for throwing), is still a topic of controversy among experts on such hardware. The question: Was it devised by obscure Frontiersman Rezin P. Bowie or by his famed brother, heroic Colonel James Bowie, who died in the siege of the Alamo...
...instruction. The Republic of Letters is a collection of literary essays that presents writers as exciting companions rather than as cadavers for hypercritical dissections. A drama critic (for TIME), playwright and novelist himself, Author Kronenberger is not easily pleased, but he refuses to approach books as if the chore were unpleasant. In the essay "Pundits and Philistines," he speaks sharply of his colleagues: "More and more of our serious critics are moving into the tight, gnomelike little world of the pedagogues, carrying on endless ill-natured controversies in print, confusing purism with integrity, using every critical article as the basis...
...reader of Sax Roehmer knows, the main trade of Shanghai is skulking about and plotting about international intrigues. So any picture with "Shanghai" in its title has quite a chore to prove itself worthy of the exotic name...