Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that reminded Cinecolumnist Parsons irresistibly of her boss-William Randolph Hearst. The seed of suspicion had been deftly implanted in the Parsons mind a week before. She had not been included among Hollywood's journalistic elite (her rival Hedda Hopper, Timesman Douglas Churchill, Look's Jim Crow) who saw the initial preview of R. K. O.'s & Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Now, at her own insistence, she was having a special showing. With her she had brought her chauffeur and two lawyers...
Early American Carols and Folk Songs (John Jacob Niles, ballad singer; Victor: 8 sides; $3.50). Strumming a dulcimer, Kentuckian Niles croons ancient carols, rousing ditties like The Frog and the Mouse and The Carrion Crow...
When Jimmu got lost among the coniform hills of Japan, he conjured up a huge three-legged crow to guide him and his warriors (begat by whom, no one knows) to fruitful places. Jimmu made jars out of Mt. Kagu, filled them with rice wine, placed them in the River Nyu, and when the drunken fish wobbled to the surface, he said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan...
...Cockcrow: one swears he knows Him not; Thence is a Church begot.)- was the angel Gabriel in disguise-who crew also in Eden when Eve plucked the forbidden fruit, and will crow again ("in the days of great persecution of the Jews, and of intestine wars") when Satan, soul nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson...
...Negro leaders proof of that point was less important last week than establishing the equality of the races in the U. S.'s new Army. So concerned were they with the Jim Crow issue that they subordinated another point, somewhat less than frank, in the War Department's statement...