Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large degree responsible for the crumbling of the play into atomized hysteria. Through the first two acts he dashed headlong through his lines, cut in on his cues before lines were finished, and strutted about, the stage with his head slightly bowed and his hands shifting at irregular intervals from his coat lapels to unpleasant gestures. In the final act West slowed down enough to give some meaning to his lines, but he never managed to get across the admittedly poorly presented ideas of Stockmann. Jack Hodges, playing Stockmann's brother, was a welcome antidote with his well-paced, intelligent...
There, surrounded by steer horns and bottles that once held "Judge" Roy Bean's beer, he wrote books of folklore that made him the Southwest's most raucously successful cultural historian ("The lies I tell are authentic"). On his door hung a sign: "Office Hours: Irregular...
...navigate under clouds. Professor Yeagley considered all the possibilities. While looking at a map which had lines representing the intensity of the earth's magnetism, he noted that the lines were crossed at varying angles by the parallels of latitude. The two sets of lines formed an irregular grid, something like the crossing lines on a sheet of graph paper. Used together, the lines served as a "frame of reference." If pigeons, he reasoned, are sensitive to some factor connected with the lines of latitude, they have all they need to find their way home. Steering by a latitude...
...India, where Baker spent three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band...
Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49 as a sewing machine man and a furniture removal man; Jay Levine '50 as a furniture removal man; Anna A. Prince, Radcliffe '48 and Lorn Slocombe as neighbors...