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Among objections to his proposal that were voiced last week was the assertion that the cow is no dull creature of sodden disposition, but a delicately organized mass of nerves, easily wrought up to the point of not giving down; a sudden upset, such as an hour's change in the milking time, might make a cow tense, thereby impairing the flow of milk necessary for national defense. Cows do indeed take a few days to get used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime...
Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...Coward's cycle of nine short plays called Tonight at 8:30 she surprised every one with her emotional flexibility, playing not only Mayfairian parts, but a shrewish lower-class wife whose husband revolts from their sodden routine, and a romance-starved middle-aged woman beginning and ending a hopeless affair in a railroad station restaurant. By the middle '30s it had become clear that while Gertrude Lawrence might not be the perfect understudy for Katharine Cornell, the versatile Miss Lawrence could come a great deal closer to putting across Juliet than Miss Cornell could to putting across Someone...
...invent characters, let them work out their ways of life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever be able to say [of the married...
Blue blood as well as red soaked the sodden plains of Flanders and the banks of the Somme last week as Britain's knights and lords fell with day laborers and farmers in the grim cavalcade of war. True to the ancient tradition that the aristocracy pays for its privileges on the day of battle, the first-born of the realm marched, as in many crises of Britain's turbulent history, to fulfill their destiny. So rapid was the depletion of the aristocracy, already thinned and impoverished by death and death taxes in World War I, that...