Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Munro Woolsey, 68, stocky, scholarly ex-federal judge whose pungent opinions on the legal nature of obscenity encouraged many a breezy headline; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed verdict, on James Joyce's Ulysses: ''Many of the words . . . characterized as dirty are old Saxon words known to almost all men and, I venture, to many women. . . . It must ... be remembered that [Joyce's] locale was Celtic and his season was spring...
...best double bills in history ("Saludos Amigos" and "Air Force"), the U.T. balances out the week with one of the worst. The second feature isn't so bad, but the Abbott-Costello opus would take the sting out of 20 other "A" pictures. Like Laurel and Hardy, Wheeler and Woolsey, A. and C. don't know when to stop. Right now they're riding the original wave of popularity which started two years ago, and their motto seems to be "Nothing new has been added...
...what will probably be the last Yale concert for the duration, some 125 members of the two singing groups will perform at 8:30 o'clock Friday night in Woolsey Hall...
...Robertson's reverential portraits his elders are stirring American archetypes. His Grandfather Bowen fought from First Manassas to Appomattox. He was "a Southern gentleman" who "worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...