Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, though dutifully dippy at intervals, Laffing Room Only is more often just a loud, vulgar Broadway revue-corn, slapstick and smut, with some fancy production numbers thrown in for size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...
...great vaudevillians and conceivably the greatest master of ceremonies of his day, Fay shows not a trace of breeziness, brassiness or smut. His manner is almost prim, his delivery slow, his material largely pointless. For one drawled gag like "Had a date with a newspaperwoman the other night-yes, she keeps a stand," there are a dozen droll nothings that are triumphs of timing and intonation...
...Hirschhorn, plant pathologist, is planning investigations in the biology of the smut fungi, and has alternate research scheduled for Harvard and the University of Minnesota...
From Scab to Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...