Word: cornfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed into as pleasant a comedy as one could wish. Rachel Crothers has, in this tale of a "lady from Dubuque" now at the Colonial, concocted a story lacking somewhat in originality, but one which is considerably enlivened by a capable cast, and the exquisite nuances of the Iowa cornfield which Miss Doucet scatters so lavishly in her role of Emmie. One never for a moment believes in the reality of this Dulsy of a later day, but if overacting is ever an art, it is effectively displayed in her role...
Dignitaries meeting Vaclav Pallier, Czechoslovakian Minister to Hungary, at the railway station in Budapest, were astonished to see him descend from the train clad only in pajamas. He explained that his trousers had been stolen overnight; he had no others with him. The trousers were found later in a cornfield. The Minister's pocketbook was not in them...
...stocking feet because he has insomnia; a long line of telegraphers getting despatches from the fighting line; General Philip Henry Sheridan and his staff in their wild gallop to reorganize their broken army cutting, in a flash of steel and a streamer of dust, across the corner of a cornfield; the assassination...