Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
...whose production is most needed, would rather take their chances on the open market, where speed and ingenuity pay off. When we need spare parts, we need them at once and not at the end of a five-week exchange of correspondence with Washington. We have better luck with junk yards than priorities...
...farmers had learned a few new tricks during the bumper years: they had planted shelter belts of trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing machines during the war. A reasonable rain or snow would nail down the soil for the year, and save the wheat...
Born Yesterday brings Brock to Washington, where he has bought a Senator, to try to grab off junk yards all over the postwar world. He installs himself, his henchman and his dumb blonde mistress in a fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like...
...Yesterday (by Garson Kanin; produced by Max Gordon) turns what could have been an angry sermon into an amusing evening. It deals with an ugly customer-a big-time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...