Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening corpse through three acts' worth of looking for the killer, the cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood to be cleared away...
MARY B. GILSON has held posts with dull names-welfare worker, employment superintendent, economics professor. She is an expert on subjects that would draw a yawn from most people-unemployment insurance, scientific management, wage and promotion systems. But in this exciting story of her life, all these things come alive...
...legends to campus statues which are said to move whenever a pure maid walks by. Under like conditions the lions in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are said to roar, have, according to Author Sharp's appendix, "so far [been] observed only to yawn...
...their stature is tiny but the people are suspicious to the point of comedy. So when it was revealed last week that 13 British subjects had been arrested as spies, the nation had a spy scare which made U. S. alarm over the fifth column look like a bored yawn. The whole nation began snooping. The Army issued a manifesto urging cooperation "in purging Japan of all espionage." Newspapers published hints, threats, alarms. Someone suggested that a British oil company had an agent at every filling station. The dowdy Japanese-British Luncheon Club was accused of being a nest...
...least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found they had better vary their mishaps each season...