Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Gurley is as used to trouble as a railroad man can be. He started at the bottom; his first job (1906) was as a clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
...calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...Sheet." Back in 1914 a tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), easygoing Irish civil servant named William Joseph Shields stood on the stage of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre, quakingly ready to deliver himself of his first speaking role. It was brief. The play was Sheridan's The Critic and his entire role, as "2nd Sentry," was to meet the cue "All this shall to Lord Burley's ear" with a yes-man's " 'Tis meet it should." Just before the cue, the malicious actor next him whispered, and the terrified Mr. Shields repeated, loud & clear...
Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
Mairzy Doats. In Hollywood, unmarried, 28-year-old Edward M. Sheridan was indicted for having listed his horse Mary Ann Sheridan as a dependent on his draft registration. Indignantly pointing out that he had honestly given her full name, sex and date of birth, he further protested: "I didn't tell any lies. I didn't list her as my daughter ... of course she's a dependent. The oats she eats keep me broke...