Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides summarizing hundreds of plays and spotting hundreds of players and playwrights, the book touches such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius Beebe on First Nights, William Fields on Press Agents, Aline Bernstein on Costumes, Arthur Richman on Playwrighting...
Well, one thing leads to another ("It'll be 15 minutes before the National Broadcasting Company will be ready with the next program, so meanwhile you and I . . .") and almost before the homebody realizes it, Ted has to rush off, leaving behind intriguing thoughts, stray wisps of poetic yarn, unwashed tea things. To folks thus beguiled, Ted Malone is Shelley, Prince Charming, Don Juan, Galahad in one. One woman has been wiring him daily and hopefully for six months, seeking a rendezvous. From Missouri, where Ted used to visit in the evening, a once-misunderstood wife confessed to curling...
...mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were still home. The younger women were particularly homesick (some were also apprehensive lest their husbands stray in their absence). Since the youngest mothers tended to have the youngest children, last week the Home Office decided that where infants under 5 were to be evacuated, their mothers would be left behind and they would be cared for in country nurseries. (Coolly observed Lady Astor: "I believe that...
...business as a rooming house was the late Mme Katherine Branchard's "house of genius" in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Comfortable under its roof had been scores of stray cats, many a famed writer, including Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, O. Henry, Willa Gather, John Reed, Frank Morris, Stephen Crane...
...Italy's war of nerves seemed settling to a state of siege as slow as the siege of Vicksburg. Now and then a stray shell-a blackout, rumors of French-British pressure (see p. 21), whispers of a dire Axis plot- sailed over and rolled along the streets. >Nobody paid much attention when the Russian Ambassador to Berlin was suddenly jerked home, replaced with a diplomatic greenhorn who had been Premier Molotov's assistant in the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. But in the Balkans there was a tremor of fright like those involuntary shudders people...