Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started, however, in the preceding decade when stage-struck Eastern collegians-notably the Princeton group headed by James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Joshua Logan and Bretaigne Windust-began spending their vacations doing old and new plays in New England resort communities. In 1930 there were 15 active "straw hat" companies within a night's railroad ride of Manhattan. By 1934, numerically the peak season, Variety could list 105 summer stock companies. At first Broadway producers thought that summer playhouses could be advantageously used to try out shows under consideration for the following season in town. Result was that three years...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...
...public schools. It sometimes forces the resignation of able zoologists even from college positions; and in high schools and late primary grades there are probably today few places where straightforward teaching of the unmitigated evolution principle can be done except at the peril of the teacher. An eviscerated straw man is set up in place of the reality for the younger students of denominational and parochial schools everywhere. Many millions of our present and future citizens are robbed of a biological outlook, or they get one that is warped and unrecognizable...
...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...
Talky-Talk. Wells's straw-men are also ventriloquial dummies: they all have the dubious gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope...