Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding in an old-fashioned manner...
...weeks to pass a price-and-wage control bill. Two of the three weeks have passed, and Congress gets farther from its objective with each hour of debate. Party discipline suffers from election-year dry rot, and the farm-bloc pressure group has lined up the boys from the corn and cotton states with perfect precision...
...immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
Through the harrying complexity of his problems his nerves remain under control. He is never tempted to go out and get drunk (never took a drink in his life), doesn't smoke and lives on in athlete's diet of plain food (favorites: hamburger, chicken, green corn, fresh vegetables and no sauce of any kind). Moreover every day he is out for a long walk, every Sunday morning in church. All this is very nearly incredible, considering the incredible Serfor job, chief parts of which...