Word: squab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such last week was the clinical history of a sensationally severe toothache which, complicated by an attack of indigestion caused by the squab chicken he ate at the National Press Club dinner last fortnight, caused Franklin Roosevelt to cancel all engagements for four days. The engagements included two press conferences, a speech at Mt. Vernon which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace delivered in his stead, a conference with utility company heads which was postponed to this week. It did not cause him to cancel a chat with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, which took place in his private quarters...
Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
...Unanimously Mr. Odets was again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs get into you." The play as a play, however, critics unanimously found confused, pretentious, empty. Mr. Odets was fervently wished better luck next time...
...after students, enraged by his radical opinions, forced his resignation from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor Lessing's bedroom. Two men went up the ladder, two pistol bullets cracked through the window pane and into Professor Lessing's head. He died in his wife's arms...
...from Blankley's (Warner). By the same mental process which makes even the feeblest joke sound funny when whispered in church, the sight of a tragedian and screen romanticist as eminent as John Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives...