Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mamfe. He chose it because while it was unsanitary, and disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson's beasts were no less odd. He captured several varieties of frogs that changed color and one that grew hair. He got into a fight with a herd...
...lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
...fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels, but her death leaves him friendless and penniless. Even in his last year the painter gets fun out of living, but he gives a cynical parting quip, "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity". Laughton...
...Shubert Theatre as the last of this year's series of drama offerings by the Theatre Guild in connection with the American Theatre Society. Maintaining the high level of artistic achievement attained by such previous members of the series as "Winterset," "Porgy and Bess" and "The Taming of the Shrew" it provides a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a long and varied theatrical season...