Word: gro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melodrama alone does not spoil Deep Are the Roots. The play takes on too much and roves too widely. The sharp, immediate problem of the returning Ne gro soldier gradually becomes blurred by almost all the chronic interracial conflicts of the South, including the last one likely to prove dangerous, intermarriage...
...last autumn, after eleven years, Mrs. Majczek was ready. She ran a classified ad in the Chicago Daily Times: $5,OOO REWARD FOR KILLERS OF OFFICER LUNDY ON DEC. 9, 1932. CALL GRO...
...plan is to send the American letters to Russians with similar interests - a gro cer's letter to a grocer, a mechanic's to his Soviet counterpart, and so on. Brief mention of the campaign in the Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife brought thousands of cheerful notes from U.S. farmers' wives, letters full of feeling for the good earth, and of high regard for Russian peasants...
Frequently Professor Briggs interrupts his show to put in a plug for the Slo-Gro Corp. of America, makers of an ointment that retards the growth of hair and so permits users to reduce their barber bills. A great one for contests, the Professor has introduced the Slo-Gro Triple-or-Nothing, Take-it-or-Stuff-it, True-Blue Americana Quiz, on which contestants have a chance to make $50,000, provided they can figure out such problems as getting the cube root of 11,682⅞ within three seconds flat. No one as yet has won any prizes...
...produces this load of lunacy is none other than amiable Jim Moran. He is Professor Briggs. He is his own musical director, a job that involves nothing more than changing records as he goes along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white...