Word: weaverization
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...other hand, cautious scholars who have no imagination have been troubled by the statement in II Samuel 21:19 where the killing of "Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam" is ascribed to one Elhanan. To smooth over the discrepancy, the passage is often made to read "the brother of Goliath the Gittite...
Peggy Wood (whose fame so transcends that of her own husband, John VanAlstyn Weaver, that he has been facetiously called Mister Peggy Wood) makes a good wife; Katherine Wilson is real as the seductress who "makes" a good husband; Playwright Strong has made a good play...
What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
...wife is Actress Peggy Wood of The Clinging Vine (musical show), Merchant of Venice (Portia), and Candida fame. Since becoming Mrs. John V. A. Weaver she has burst into print (Saturday Evening Post) with advice to would-be actors...
...Setting down in slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant...