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...glowing in the choking gloom, heard men's voices. Slowly, fumblingly, the men divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back...
Posters spotted the kiosks and bill boards of Buenos Aires. "Don't buy La Prensa!" they shrilled. "Don't advertise in La Prensa, the No. 1 enemy of the news vendors and workers in general." The posters bore the imprint of the Argentine Ministry of Information...
...claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
That old country was utterly unlike the prairie farm-a farm so big that the old man had never learned to work it. But his big son, Pier, putting all his strength into the job, got rid of the mortgage that first bumper year. And Nertha bore him a boy. Pier bought a 1919 Buick. He was so sure of himself that he laughed at the county agent who wanted him to try contour plowing. Nertha coaxed him to learn how to read and write, but Pier cared more about breeding heifers...
...much of a whistling mood. Operettas have librettos, of course; and librettos are born old. And The Chocolate Soldier's, despite its descent - and mighty steep it is - from Shaw's Arms and the Man, is far from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what is known as a routine revival...