Word: ploughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speed the Plough...
...Sussex. Afoot and in wagons, they converged on Chichester Cathedral, whose distant spire was a grey needle against the sea. They filed into the famed early Norman church, packed it to the doors, and waited self-consciously. For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated...
Eight farmers in white milking coats carried a red, blue and silver plough down the nave, laid it at the chancel steps and knelt around it. Then another farmer gave thanks for God's gifts while the congregation joined him in repeating the last three words of each sentence: "The rich soil, the smell of the fresh-turned earth-come from God. . . . The beauty of a clean-cut furrow, the sweep of a well-ploughed field -come from...
...Casual Life. In spite of such abilities and encomiums, Fitzgerald had a run of negligible roles in Hollywood from the time he and three other Players put The Plough and the Stars on film (under John Ford's direction, 1937) to Going My Way. Said he, on a return trip to the Manhattan stage: "I didn't have the energy to come away. I made a little money and I thought I'd take a holiday. Weeks stretched into months and months into years. ... I didn't like Hollywood. It is a dull and enervating place...
...which our editors "mined'' for news. And they still "mine" hundreds of papers for you each week-papers in French and German and Russian and Spanish and many another tongue-so many of them that it would take you more than 19 days of continuous reading to plough through a single issue of each of them (even if you could read all the languages...