Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster, one old black woman was to take to sharpening her carving-knife, another to whisking her dustcloth up & down like a crazy baton...
...abandoning one-third of M. & St. L.'s 1,500 miles of line. Associated Railways proposed to parcel out the rest for the partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include Illinois Central and Soo Line...
...incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know if he had missed...
...case must also be cited, as witnessed by Sir Arnold Hodson, of a woman buried up to her neck for three days until some one finished her with a large rock. With absolute indifference for life, lepers numbering about 100,000 are permitted to wander freely in Ethiopia, with the perpetual danger of contagion...
Young Author Flandrau nevertheless found conforming difficult. Editors lured him with attractive offers. The best of Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic...