Word: daft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making memorable the occasion, Jack Barrymore, who was referred to by Variety last fortnight as "that daft sprig of catnip," had arrived at the studio cold sober and an hour early, for rehearsal...
...rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft...
...very comprehensible poem, all of which may be due to the "New Yorker" influence. William Abrahams lacks it. His "Laughing Sonatinc" has a superb feel for rhythm, and I really like it without trying to pin it down to actual meaning. But how can one reconcile "The daft witch tittered a tattered prophecy" with a poem about Marguerite Lewis? I don't know her, but certainly should like to now. I. A. Richards has a career cut out for him at the Advocate House...
...woodland firebugs are not daft in the sense that their urban colleagues are. But they have almost nothing in the way of diversion. Southern stocks of game and fish are dwindling; hillbillies have no money for movies. So the men whittle, talk, sit-or start fires...