Word: croppers
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...characters don't really matter. The effective handling of large-group singing and dancing, the music, costumes, atmosphere, are what make the play. We will say, though, that you'll have a surprise when you see the hero, Roy Cropper. He was a new one one us...But we like him. Bernard Cranville is very pleasing and wears a silk hat well, in addition to being funny once in a while. But one fears that not a great deal can be said for the leading lady. Miss Briggs...
...native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes a cropper...
...farm is officially defined as "all the land which is directly farmed by one porson either by his own labor alone, or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees." Each piece of land cultivated by a tenant cropper or manager is rated as a farm...
Marcus Garvey, Provisional President of Africa, came a cropper at last. Some time ago, he was convicted of using the mails to defraud (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923) in connection with operations of a "Black Star Line" of which he assumed the title of President...
TutankhAmen came a cropper. His friends fell to wrangling over his bones...