Word: clod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Very Warm for May lacks "ideas." Rather, it is swamped by them. Providing an elaborate burlesque of summer barn theatres, with their mauve-tinted playwrights, dimwit patronesses and clod-like performers, it lunges wildly in every direction. It jazzes up Freud, mimics Dali, writhes and wriggles, gambols and glides, rains schottisches, streams gavottes, blows ballets. The atmosphere, at its thickest, is very warm for mayhem. The whole thing suggests perfectly the hysterical side of summer theatres, but doesn't turn the funny side into laughs...
...Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...
...teachers' meeting in Cleveland, Professor Max D. Steer of Purdue University produced graphs of Adolf Hitler's clod-compelling voice. The wave frequency of the Führer's frenetic shouts in a typical sentence: 228 vibrations a second-eight more, according to one authority, than the average person's in anger. Said Professor Steer: "It is this high pitch and its accompanying emotion that puts the German people in a passive state...
Residents of Port Orford, Ore. made a great to-do last week about a mislaid meteorite. Somewhere in the wilderness to the southeast lay a huge clod of stone and metal. Exactly where it was, only one person thought he knew. In 1859 Dr. John Evans, a U. S. Government geologist, stumbled on a meteoritic body, almost entirely buried, whose mass he estimated at 22,000 Ib. A 25-gram sample was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The meteorite was classified as a pallasite-a mixture of olivine (green magnesium iron silicate) and metallic iron. Unfortunately, before...
...epidemic of misprints and proof-reader's errors is making complete the intimidation of the Dunster trencherman. Last night the menu offered "Assorted Clod Meats" to the would-be diners...