Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences in Columbus were not particularly warm toward the play. Adapted from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prizewinning novel, its first drawback was that the dialog was in Gullah.* And Actress Barrymore's facial expressions, under cork, were hard to see, especially since the sets were made too dark. But Actress Barrymore was not downhearted. She had the kind of a part which is every actor's dream: when she was not holding the stage all the other actors were talking about...
...Birth of Venus" shows a curling lock of blonde hair tied with lavender ribbon, balanced against a branch of coral which in turn stands on a block of cork and a cockleshell...
...factory which Mr. Ford will not own is being built to build Fords by the Soviet Government in Russia. The Fordson Tractor factory is at Cork, Ireland. But in Europe proper Mr. Ford owns only sales offices and assembly plants...
...freshened up a bit, the wind veering to the east. Both vessels took in their spinnakers for a reach (wind broad abeam). At the halfway mark shirtsleeved Skipper Vanderbilt went wide. Shamrock V, less than three minutes behind, passed close enough to the Thomas F. Moran to pitch a cork aboard. Both boats, breaking out jib, baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail...
...wide-eyed children clambered excitedly through one of the strangest houses ever built. It is a poured-stone structure on the foundations of an old cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal...