Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel they gave their all in the making of steamed chocolate pudding, foamy sauce (bread run through the steam tunnels, we suppose), up-side down pudding, etc., and that the untutored undergraduates merely prefer ice-cream. We editors like ice-cream, in moderate quantities, but are getting bored. We eat it merely for protest, not for preference. Maybe December 6th will find the Harvard desserts more consonant to the spirit of the House Plan...
...school? Last week Miss Nellie W. Birdsong, psychologist of Maryland State Normal School, told a Child Study Association meeting: "Children too frequently feel themselves the centre of attention when repeated calls are made for them to get up in the morning, to hurry over their dressing and to eat their meals. Flattered, they try to keep the centre of the stage by actions that seem to them to elicit this specific attention. A little seeming indifference on the part of parents and the throwing of more responsibility upon the child for his lateness at school often will remedy such...
...Eat Cake (music & lyrics by George & Ira Gershwin respectively; book by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind; Sam Harris, producer). When the opening scene of this musicomedy began with the familiar martial strains of "Wintergreen for President," Manhattan first-nighters applauded happily. They recalled what a fine show Of Thee I Sing had been, leaned back in their seats to enjoy its sequel. But when the curtain fell on Let 'em Eat Cake there was an embarrassing dearth of applause. Critics and spectators went out grumbling that the nation's great musicomedy quadrivirate had lain down on their...
When Of Thee I Sing was produced, a Presidential election loomed. The show's political jibes were more sharply pointed with every edition of the newspapers. Let 'em Eat Cake concerns itself with a revolution and a dictatorship. Perhaps Messrs. Kaufman & Ryskind could have been more amusing had they chosen to square off at President Roosevelt and the NRA. Instead, their libretto wanders dreamily away into demented unreality...
...League Club by letting the members believe that the revolution is directed against the British. The jokes about France's War debt, the mental incompetence of voters, the uselessness of the Vice-Presidency,* which made Of Thee I Sing so amusing, are all reworked for Let 'em Eat Cake. They fall quite flat. So do George Gershwin's antiphonal choral numbers which have grown longer and more tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair for writing silly repetitive lyrics no longer seems a sprightly burlesque...