Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life is Crude. There is nothing much to do except to work hard all day, then go to bed. Up at five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines...
...Virginia's apple-cheeked applegrower Senator Harry Byrd announced that Agriculture Department chemists had concocted a sweet apple syrup to double for hard-to-get sugar and glycerine...
...Intrusion [in a good program] of a new voice, talking with cozing aggressiveness, like a syrup in a hurry, about the failings of a kidney...
...Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup for one-third...
Somehow, the acting seemed no more to blame than the directing. Individual roles were at times sufficient, but they were too much isolated from the rest of the play. The plot is pure syrup and the interpretation hasn't prevented it from spilling over. When you should be crying you find yourself twisting a program, and you have to be careful to keep from laughing at the wrong time. The treatment is purely Victorian, as the prologue announces, but the return to candid sentimentalism is unfortunately too much for both the cast and the audience...