Word: calico
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...White House in a flowered calico, The furniture can stay, boy, but the piano's gotta go. If I don't make much salary, I'm not afraid of that 'Cause if I get elected, well, there's other ways to skin...
...from Calico. Eldest son of a Manchester calico merchant, he dutifully sold the "disgusting, smelly stuff" till he was past 40. After business hours, as drama reviewer for the Manchester Guardian, he soaked up theatrical lore, fashioned a springy, cock-of-the-walk style all his own. With a little prompting from J.A. (as he often called himself), London capitulated, gave him enough critical portfolios for an unofficial ministry-of-arts. Some of his posts: drama critic of the Sunday Times, film critic of the Tatter, book reviewer for the Daily Express, theater commentator for BBC. For a time...
Uncle Joe came up the hard way, and the country respected him for it. As a boy he sold calico and plowshares to support his widowed mother. Later he read law in a Terre Haute law office, slept on a wooden bench in the office. When he started practice, in Shelbyville, Ill., he was glad to trudge 20 miles to earn a $5 fee. He did not have to trudge long. A Congressman at 36, Uncle Joe spent 23 terms in the House, four of them as Speaker. But somewhere along the line, Uncle Joe got out of step...
...truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...
...yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon lost in the shuffle of calico and cowboy boots and does not reappear until way into the last...