Word: snags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 3%. Using Norwegian killer ships, the Ulysses caught over 1,400 whales, boiled them down, sold the oil to U. S. soap manufacturers at an average price of about 5? a pound. Ready to send his refinery back to the Antarctic next December, Whaler Isbrandtsen struck a snag...
...English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part...
Only one falls flat. That nobody can do anything with the puerile plot of The Comedy of Errors was shown this season when Rodgers & Hart found it the snag in their otherwise delightful The Boys from Syracuse. But the Old Globe's The Taming of the Shrew picks up enormously by having Kate take the count within 45 minutes, becomes, indeed, an exuberant comic-strip courtship. Best of the four productions is A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...drenched and bewildering world. One of the bewildered people is a tall, lean, 25-year-old hillbilly convict who has never seen much water before. Given a boat which he does not know how to manage, he is sent to rescue a woman perched on an old cypress snag and a man clinging to the ridgepole of a cotton house...
Aside from the fact that Curwen is in eligible at the moment, Ulen need have no worries about these men, nor will he brood about his divers, headed by Captain Rusty Greenhood. The Crimson team's leader this year will be untouchable most of the season, the only possible snag for him being Dan Endweiss of down New Haven way. George Dana, naturally graceful in the air, and Chet Sagenkahn, a diligent worker, are fighting for the No. 2 diver's niche. Dana has had some Varsity experience that ought to give him the edge, but Sagenkahn has been training...