Word: jig
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...critics have cried unfair tactics, notably some English reviewers who seem to feel that such syllabic pruning and repairing is too much like filing the parts of a jig-saw puzzle to make them fit. If such were the case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable...
...Jig, a line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
...Hero is Jig's pal, Shelly Bayliss, a man's man, though he has a queer habit of saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes...
...December 1936 to $45,000 in December 1937, it could no longer meet its debt charges. When RFC refused Erie's request for a $6,006,000 loan because Erie's wealthy parent company, the Chesapeake & Ohio, would not guarantee the loan (TIME, Jan. 17). the jig was up. Last week, therefore, Erie wearily filed a petition to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, its fourth reorganization in 100 years...
...awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week he whipped a Cabinet together which contained three members of the National Peasant Party. These were promptly denounced as turncoats and Judases by Peasant Leader Maniu but remained silent on their dignity. Quickly Octavian Goga hustled the whole Cabinet to the palace to take the oath...