Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each stanza is declaimed, the entire cast freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed...
...last name of the governor who got in a rhubarb with Secaucus, N.J. over its pigs...
...first clash with the "enemy" (ten submarines and one cruiser) brought on an intra-fleet rhubarb. A Russian sub (H.M.S. Taciturn) got through the destroyer screen and promptly claimed hits on four carriers, but the umpires (on the surface ships) ruled her sunk. Such differences will be resolved when the two-week exercise is finished and the commanders gather in Oslo for a review. Meanwhile, "sunken" carriers and subs fight...
...Rhubarb & Calomel. The pattern emerged most clearly in South Carolina, whose Democratic leaders gathered at Columbia to complete the state convention recessed last April. The man whose attitude counted most was old Governor James Byrnes. Southern Democrats, he told the convention, had won some victories at Chicago. Stevenson was the most conservative and best-qualified candidate, excepting Georgia's Dick Russell. John Sparkman had always been true to the South on civil rights. The platform is bad on civil rights, but might have been worse if the South hadn't been in there fighting. Then the governor...
This was not enough for some of the hotter heads, who still wanted to give the Democratic spot on the ballot to the Republican nominees. Said James A. Mayfield of Bamberg County: "Senator Sparkman is just the sugar-coated candy to get rid of the rhubarb and calomel taste of Truman and the C.I.O. gang." But Jimmy Byrnes's plan, as is customary in South Carolina, was adopted...