Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee...
...Connecticut Yankee (book by Herbert Fields; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by Mr. Rodgers) is not a straight revival. Suspecting that nobody would walk a mile for a Camelot he saw 16 years ago, Messrs. Fields, Rodgers & Hart have redecorated King Arthur's court - waxed the Round Table, polished the armor, restrung the harps, put a Navy uniform on the startled and startling visitor. The result, despite a slow start and a rather trying book, is a likable and lilting piece of Yankee-panky...
Cursing. "I hope you fall out of the window, you blankety-blank stinky old bitch." This bad wish was expressed by a three-year-old in the wartime nursery school set up by Connecticut's St. Joseph College, in downtown Hartford. The vexed urchin's pretty teacher was not at all shocked: but being a nursery-school teacher, she carefully wrote down every word. In the newly streamlined November Progressive Education, she suggests how to handle such tough-talking cherubs...
...Lebanese-less than a million Moslems and Christians living in a country smaller than Connecticut-had been promised their freedom in 1941, after British and Fighting French ousted a Vichyite administration in Lebanon and the neighboring French Mandate of Syria. U.S. diplomacy and Atlantic Charter propaganda had encouraged the aspirations of some 35,000,000 Arabs in the Middle East. Last September the Lebanese were allowed to elect an ardently nationalist government. Last week their Parliament voted, in effect, to end the mandate, take over full control from French colonial officials. Sensitive Gaullists, feeling their oats and smarting under unsatisfactory...
...lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating The War Between Men and Women (including The Fight in the Grocery and Zero Hour-Connecticut...