Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hours and hours of circling through streets of Cambridge in a sound truck yesterday, with a stentorian voice advertising the merits of "Jonah and the Whale", failed to bring the Dramatic Club a capacity audience at its premiere in the Peabody Theatre last night. But the inconsiderable number that did attend the performance seemed very appreciative...
Especially effective was the scene representing the prophet in the whale's belly. The huge mammal immediately proceeds to talk into his own stomach and in a pedantic tone of voice offers poor Jonah the benefit of innumerable intellectual tidbits...
Last night at the Peabody Playhouse the Harvard Dramatic Club threw a curiously shy Jonah at a strangely talkative whale. Following their admirable tradition they have given us another "American Premiere"--in this case the first performance in this country of a play that has already amused London audiences and will for the remaining evenings of this week amuse Boston audiences. For the audience last night seemed really to enjoy the way in which the Dramatic Club not only brought the Bible up to date but even added a few original touches to James Bridie's text...
Thou, gecko aggrandized into a quadrupedal whale...
Despite its fame among naturalists, Ward's is almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there...