Word: lava
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odets does not encase this eternal situation in the snug, tight frame of the well-made Broadway "domestic drama.'' Heaving, racked, volcanic, the play belches the hot subterranean lava of its characters' anger, helplessness, pain. It draws back their skin to leave every nerve exposed. In its best scenes Rocket to the Moon is blisteringly real, its dialogue forks and spits like lightning from a scornful...
Using the coined term "abyssolith" meaning bottomless stone, Professor Daly explained the nature of the connecting masses between the volcanoes and molten interior. When the abyssolith's supply of surface lava combined with steam and other gases under ter- rific pressure is exhausted, the volcano goes...
Members of the cast, except for the chorus, have been tentatively chosen. Oscar Hausserman '38 will take the part of the punch-drunk pugilist, Beaudegarde Schmaltz. David Glueck '38 will play Lava Lucille, a South Sea Island Princess...
North and west of Pocatello, Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another...
...Island, Hawaii, was very beautiful. Volcanoes had scattered lava over two-thirds of the island so that one could not see the land at all. On the other third cattle browsed and sugarcane grew--these on the Parker ranch, owned by a young man who forsook farming for Hollywood, where the producers own everything including their own language and where Ralph Forbes cannot pronounce "promiscuously...