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Said a friend who found Alf Landon in his barn currying a horse: "Guess you're having a better time than if you had got the big job." Said Alf Landon: '"Yes, if I had won I wouldn't have had a chance to curry my horse...
...employees, and it shortly faces the necessity of taking a stand on the A. F. of L. bid for a closed shop among the dining-hall workers. The suddenness of this activity and the fact that it coincides with a drive for unionization make the gestures look much like barn-locking after the horse is stolen. Thus caught napping at first base Harvard must find out why its wage policy leaves the University open to union drives, and whether or not, in fact, it has an up-to-date wage policy...
...lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast as "a tramp from Newark," her fresh-faced prettiness belying every tough trait she tried to show...
...both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
...queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see crach...