Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacob's Dream. Continuing to stick its tongue out at common sense reality, the Habima Company adds another to its weird repertory, this last, however, being of less sombre stuff. As the title suggests, the play contains the familiar characters: Jacob, Rebekah, Esau; the familiar implements: the ladder, the mess of pottage. But it strays from the story told in the Sunday School texts. However, the Habima Players know their Old Testament well enough to keep the spiritual significance intact. Moreover, they know their theatre...
...Last week the two philosophers came to court with their lawyers. Said Lawyer Levy to the Court: "My client does not desire to press the complaint, [felonious assault] and he asks your permission to have it withdrawn." "What had they been drinking?" asked the magistrate. "The usual stuff." "Will you shake hands?" asked the magistrate. Grinning sheepishly, the two philosophers shook hands. ""Case dismissed," said the magistrate, who reflected, as the pair left arm in arm, that philosophy is thicker than alcohol. News writers drew the obvious parallel of Damon & Phintias...
...into a section where a storm has wreaked navoc. All the big trees are down, and a new forest, head high, is growing up so thick that (as has been said) you have to cut a hole for your cuttings before you can do any cutting! In this small stuff you may take an hour to clear a hundred feet. You may run into a section that has been logged, where you have a small new growth of cherry birch, and maple from half an inch to four inches in diameter; or instead, a tangle of bushes, raspberry, blackberry, alder...
...book on taxidermy, advertised in the Youth's Companion, was what started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...Tutor Door--Massachusetts Avenue at Holyoke--An old English atmosphere that takes you back--way back. If you can afford it, excellent. If you can't, go anyway. It's always amusing. The very best Harlem has to offer. Black Bottom, hey, hey stuff starts at two o'clock. Come later...