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...coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean O'Casey: Juno & The Paycock, The Plough & The Stars. Bad Girl is another novel which is plausible in its dramatized version. Season before last the book ranked as a best seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story of the book was thin, most...
...interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting...
...Halfback Owl, also Bluemenstock and Simonson heard their names cheered by Springfield students who, not daring to expect much, saw them plough through Brown to win by the width of a Brown kick that went crooked. Springfield 7, Brown...
...there an unusual incident which has occurred over that long period, but it is easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand at the gallows for an hour with a rope about his neck, and then submit to a severe whipping...
...Shadow of a Gunman was O'Casey's first play; The Plough and the Star, his third...