Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier in this uneasy coalition was youngish (44), handsome Gaston Eyskens, who as former Finance Minister had been the scarecrow of Belgian taxpayers. His tax collectors, to whom he had given virtually inquisitorial powers, had outraged Belgians, who are highly imaginative deduction hunters. A learned, conservative economist, Eyskens will push strict government economy, lower taxes, fewer state controls...
Imaginative, sensitive, scarecrow-thin Neville had only four years of school, "a place of darkness and inhumanity." The public library was his university: "I discovered Charles Dickens and went crazy. I read at meals. I read under the [street] lamps. I read myself to [acute] myopia...
...dusted off and reissued, proves that true wizardry, whether in books or on the screen, is ageless. In the magical land of Oz, nothing changes. As wide-eyed Dorothy, Judy Garland still wanders through an enchanted Technicolored landscape with the Tin Woodsman (Jack Haley), the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). The whimsical gaiety, the lighthearted song & dance, the lavish Hollywood sets and costumes are as fresh and beguiling today as they were ten years ago when the picture was first released. Oldsters over ten who have seen it once will want to see it again.Youngsters...
...audience settled down to enjoy at least a good laugh. This little scarecrow figure who closed the score before he started to play looked as if he might furnish some fun. But by the end of Act I, they were on their feet, cheering. At 19, Arturo Toscanini had won his first ovation as a conductor...
...tight-trousered farmer holding two Japanese flags, two old soldiers with elaborate monkey faces, and a tall samurai (honorable warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...