Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanley's characters are locked up in a strange love-hate relationship in a town in the north of England. Joshua Baines, his wife and her sister Winifred squabble, scream and spy on one another. But none has the strength to break away: a past tragedy keeps them together. On the eve of Winifred's wedding, her fiance, Tom, was seduced by Mrs. Baines. The wedding was called off and Tom died soon after...
...bitch, cry." Mrs. Baines obliges, while Wrinifred claws hysterically at the grave. But the rest of the week Mrs. Baines rules the household. She brutally orders her Milquetoast husband about, refuses to be in the same room with Winifred. A bad case of Calvinist repression, will-less Joshua cannot even bring himself to say "I want." His only solace is the Bible and the thought of death. Mrs. Baines consoles him: "Think of a day when you're nothing, Mr. Baines. Nothing...
...your issue of Saturday, October 6, the statement is made concerning the Ga language that the last study of it "was made in 1858." Actually, a grammar of Ga with notes and exercises was published at Oxford in 1930, the author being M. B. Wilkie. Joshua Whatmough, Chairman of the Department of Lingulstics...
...Chief Justice Sir Robert Tredgold, who resigned from the bench in 1960 in protest against earlier restrictive measures, the new laws portend "a police state." What chiefly worried whites was the likelihood that such harsh measures might simply force the African nationalists underground. This seemed to be precisely what Joshua Nkomo had in mind. His answer to the government was simple and brisk: "The bannings will not be accepted...
Almost two months before reaching Broadway. Mr. President seemed to have all the makings of a smash hit. The musical was written, after all, by Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse. It is directed by Joshua Logan and produced by Leland Hayward. In tribute to the pulling power of those names, Mr. President has already sold nearly $2,000,000 worth of tickets and will probably run up an advance of $2,500,000, pushing Camelot ($3,000,000) as the most presold production of all time. More than 150 groups have anxiously signed up for "benefit" theater parties...