Word: ploughed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically unintelligible to non-wearers of the green...
Chief critical interest in The Plough & the Stars was its comparison with Mr. O'Casey's fantastic Within the Gates, also playing in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 5). Consensus of cooler heads was that O'Casey's earlier realism had cards and spades over his later flights into the realm of theatrical fancy...
...Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. When the Abbey turned down The Silver Tassic, an anti-War piece, O'Casey split with the organization, moved to England. Within the Gates is the first O'Casey play without an Irish setting...
...soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them...
Best known Memphis Businessman is William Neely ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, All-America Yale footballer (1923), last man tapped for Skull & Bones in his year, vice president of Memphis Cotton Compress & Storage Co. and president of the Carnival Association. Then there is Abe Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town...