Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romeo and Juliet. A great show, even for those who secretly think the Bard is a bore...
...never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo...
...wholesome bawdry which somehow manages to dodge the usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly red wig, is an ebullient Mercutio, gay as May in the Queen Mab speech, bitter as gall when he dies cursing "both your houses." Capable but less distinguished as Romeo is Basil Rathbone, whose virtuosity appears to stop just this side of eloquence. His pausing, prosy delivery is perhaps better suited to modern evening dress than to 16th Century tights...
Last week's Gran Premio had a special importance for manufacturers of European racing cars. The French Grand Prix was won this year by an Italian Alfa-Romeo, the German classic by a German Auto-Union. The changes in the Monza track were expected to help the Italian cars which have less straightaway speed than the German. The victory of a Mer- cedes gave Germany first place for the year. Second finisher last week was Germany's Von Stuck, whose Auto-Union won the German race...
...crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with them from the East...