Word: ned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Danny's father Jim, a good-hearted teamster with a fondness for Shakespeare, had little money, many children. Danny therefore lived with Grandmother O'Flaherty, shiftless Uncle Ned, passionate, self-pitying Aunt Margaret, Uncle Al who sold shoes on the road, read Chesterfield and Boswell. Father and Son traces Jim's decline through heart disease to his consecrated grave, Danny's rise through high school and adolescence to a job like his father's at an express agency...
...Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers...
...Great White Way. Dr. Foss's manual has complete instructions as to how to handle these lofty representatives of Cambridge: "Do not get two professors together in the same crowd. They may sing. Merge all titles into 'Doctor.' Don't keep them up after 2 a.m. They ned time to organize their material for the next day's symposium...
Brooklyn had nurtured flashy teams before. In 1890, the year Brooklyn joined the National League, their ball club, then known as the Bridegrooms, ran away with the pennant. At the turn of the century, under foxy Ned Hanlon, Brooklyn won the pennant twice (1899 and 1900), were promptly nicknamed the Superbas-after Hanlon's Superbas, a famed burlesque troupe of that era. In 1916 and 1920, guided by beloved Wilbert ("Uncle Robbie") Robinson, the newly dubbed Dodgers (originally Trolley Dodgers, because Brooklynites were constantly dodging ballpark-bound trolleys) again proved the class of the league...
...Theatre Guild was the most important single influence on the U. S. theatre. It may have fallen for artiness, but it also recognized art. An organization which, during its first ten years, produced Heartbreak House, Liliom, Back to Methuselah, R. U. R., The Adding Machine, Saint Joan, Processional, Ned McCobb's Daughter, Right You Are If You Think You Are and Strange Interlude could well be pleased with itself...