Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Kelly, a teetotaler, would not even have a thimbleful of whiskey at his party, but he sat down at his typewriter and batted out the news for happy Walla Wallans to read in the morning editions of his newspaper...
...poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
...passed, the classically prim Italian operas were forgotten, but the frowsy Beggar's Opera became a classic. Last week the Beggar's Opera even made the 20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's Red network. John Gay's ribald lines had been studio-broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time...
...Flushing, N. Y., Deputy Health Commissioner John Grimley ordered evicted Eskimo Robert Mayokok, his wife, four children, from a World's Fair igloo. Reason: the igloo is an exhibit, not a domicile...
...guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...