Word: shrewishly
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Sherman H. Hawkins '51 will direct the play. Joanna Brown '52 plays the shrewish shoemaker's wife, and Michael Mabry '53 plays the shoemaker who is driven out of his home...
...Race (by Garson Kanin; produced by Leland Hayward) is one more thrust at the hard, cold sidewalks of New York. With a colorful set representing "a piece of Manhattan," and a friendly loafer and shrewish landlady providing an antiphonal chorus, the author of Born Yesterday has portrayed a squalid world of heels and down-at-heels, of furnished rooms and finished lives. The central story, which sounds the most comforting note, begins as Boy-Meets-Girl in Act I, ends as Boy-Mates-Girl...
...Herndon, Lincoln law partner and biographer (with Jessie Weik), get his due. He loved and respects Lincoln, but he insisted on telling what he believed to be the truth: about the illegitimacy of Lincoln's mother; Lincoln's religion, or lack of it; his feeling about his shrewish wife. Herndon's theory was that Mary Todd helped Lincoln to success by driving him from the house to the sanctuary of office and politics. Of course, Mary Todd disliked Herndon intensely, and didn't help when he, trying to compliment her on her physical grace, awkwardly likened...
...what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...deep winters and stormy summers passed, the loess (heavy deposit of windblown dust) gradually washed and gullied away. Nertha, too, changed. She suffered Pier and worked for him. At last she became barren, apathetic, shrewish. When Teo, their little boy, was six, he was already doing a man's work. But despite Teo's help, Pier had to mortgage the farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust...