Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate Forsyte Saga, gain nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
...hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds of the orchestral instruments...
...Thirty-year-old Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing won a wife. After college he settled down to a steady routine of handkerchiefs, squash and bridge, has been monotonously successful in all three...
Last week in Brooklyn, Harry Wolf won his ninth successive national amateur squash tennis championship, proving himself as unbeatable in this sport as Jay Gould once was in court tennis, Clarence Pell in racquets. With his angled power game he beat his Montclair Athletic Club-mate Philip Moore (son of an English racquets professional from whom Wolf first learned the game at 14) in straight games...
...capybara, a guinea pig as big as a wolf...