Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bamboo Music Hall. Major Clark Robinson organized the show in Assam while constructing a crude movie theater known as the Bamboo Music Hall. Robinson, a former New York scenic designer (Radio City Music Hall, the Roxy Theater), got the help of Private Al Roth as stage man- ager, gathered talent as he could find it. Props were made from whatever came handy...
...Hairy Ape (United Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
...Lend-Lease planes streaking towards the Soviet Union. Officially the manifold project dubbed Canol was proposed to Canada June 27, 1942, started two days later. First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link was welded Feb. 18 near Macmillan, astride the Arctic continental divide. This week brass hats celebrated the completion of the refinery...
...prize for his discovery in 1932. Last week Dr. Adrian reported his progress in this scientific eavesdropping. The messages he has picked up from the brain, he told an audience of distinguished scientists in the second Pilgrim Trust Lecture in Washing ton, have so far been vague and rather crude, but he has heard enough to make him hopeful that some day an electrical listening post will be able to report what, if anything, a brain is thinking...