Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the war scare London's theatre-goers have been so jittery that stage shootings there must now be committed "quietly." Backstage notices read: "A loud report is now a physical strain which causes both pain and actual illness...
...script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep awake, repeatedly had to be nudged out of a doze to answer questions...
Though his landscapes sometimes melted too much in atmospheric blues, his design was usually crisp and all his own. In a few pictures, like Fête de Suquet, with its bright, yellow, sunstruck, secretive buildings and dancing figures, he achieved without strain a poignancy of design that some modern painters sweat for. In 1937 the Paris Exposition awarded him his greatest honor: the Grand Prix for painting...
...strain of thoroughbred seed corn, sold through the corn belt by Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. in which Wallace is now a small stockholder. He holds no stock in Wallace's Farmer which after an expensive 1929 merger with its competitor, Iowa Homestead, passed out of the family's hands...
...illustrations, Mrs. McKelway got one of her ex-husband's colleagues, James Thurber, who himself looks some-what like a collie, with a strain of English sheep dog. His familiar, frustrated drawings aim less at anatomical correctness than at psychological accuracy...