Word: craw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neighbor Sharpy Cullen, reveals something intended to carry walloping significance for the reader: Richard Tolman's real name was Toulemonde-everybody. It is doubtful that this information will prevent all the survivors of Mr. Morley's withering crossfire of literary quotations, rhymed commentaries, reflections on women and craw-sticking puns from realizing that in the latest Morley novel they have been fed a fuzzy allegory that pretends much and says little...
Jeffers' political views are, in fact, stark and skinny as a buzzard's craw. His new lyrics say that the U.S. was embroiled in World War II by "liars," that the U.S. dead in the war were "gypped," that the effect of U.S. entry was to "[level] the powers of Europe" and make balance, or peace, impossible; that, as a result, a third World War is coming, and that in it, or in the next, the U.S. will suffer "the brutal horror of defeat...
...Constitutional Committee proposed, first of all, that membership on the new Council be elected from the Houses, with regard for no Class save the Sophomores, who would be underrepresented in the Houses. This proposition evidently stuck in the full Council's craw, and this section, together with some others, has been sent back to the Committee with the recommendation that further consideration be given to Class representation. The Council, although seemingly nullifying some ten-weeks work of its committee, has actually taken a long range point of view in realizing that Class currents, totally disrupted by the war, will again...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...brief A.P. dispatch from North Africa recorded the perfect epitaph for Nick Craw: "He was born...