Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folk songs, as Emrich has since discovered, cover a multitude of sins - historical and otherwise. To the accompaniment of fiddles, banjos, guitars, dulcimers, bottles, tin cans and washboards, one can hear love songs, laments and domestic satires...
...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...
...commencement time last year, a husky Secret Service man wiggled under a stage at an East Coast college, where the President of the United States was to receive an honorary degree. In the shadows he spotted a tin can, lifted it gingerly out and raised the top. Inside was a note: "This could have been a bomb." But the Secret Service did not need a college prank to remind them of the danger. This June, when Ike is on the road 15 days out of 30, the Secret Service will be on the move 30 days...
...boulevards and byways that empty into Tin Pan Alley, few are as celebrated as Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn. Nobody knows who the original Beale was, but the street was once a fashionable place where wealthy white men built their mansions. During the Civil War, General Ulysses Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above...
...season's chief trend was less toward sex, however, than toward good old-fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy...