Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a guinea pig, of course, would have to have an air of freshman-like innocence and a convincingly slight knowledge of nineteenth-century European history, so I set to work at once. The letter which Cramer had sent to a College club was necessarily vague, so the first stop was to phone the number on the letterhead for further information...
...ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorcière!" Joan finally dies in a flaming burst of music from chorus and orchestra. After a stunned pause, the audience demanded ten curtain calls of cast...
...press conference later, the council's mild-mannered chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, former vice president of Brookings Institution, was less chary. The scarcity of coke, steel, pig iron and railway cars, he said, "is likely to prevent production from overshooting the mark. . . . Given a fair crop year, there's a distinct possibility that 1948 will see an abatement of the inflation...
...wondrous an array of food turned up in la mere Miville-Dechêne's kitchen that little Gilles; 10, and Marcel, 9, could scarcely believe their eyes. There were two turkeys, a whole pig's head, great pieces of pork and ham and veal, a beef tongue, fruits, nuts, candy, piles of vegetables and a big jar of olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first...
...sober Manchester Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...