Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...centring around a grey hill of steps that revolved for scene changes. The actors often pointed up the dialogue by posturing up and down the steps. They also made sallies into the aisles. If Piscator intended to de-emphasize the individual actors, his accomplishment was not noticeable. The veteran Sam Jaffe (of The Jazz Singer, Grand Hotel and Hollywood) was a subtle, moving Lear whose chief fault was that his appearance kept suggesting that ex-Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was playing the part...
Most Americans learned in school that during the dark winter at Valley Forge, Washington was the near-victim of a cabal cooked up by Irish Expatriate and French General Thomas Conway, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, by the Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild...
...draft registrant in Harrisburg, Pa. last week thought up a new reason for exemption. His plea: his wife's "prospective pregnancy." Said a member of the local draft board, granting the deferment: "I think at a time like this his wife will need him more than Uncle Sam...
...preferred stockholders since 1931 ; its common shareholders since 1930. Usually an oil-and-granger road, hit hard by the decline in crop exports. Katy recently hauled 320 carloads of lumber, seven carloads of wooden tent poles, 15 carloads of Army rubbers, 181 carloads of mattresses to Fort Sam Houston and elsewhere...
...inspections, it has been an out-of-date nuisance, especially anomalous in Air Corps and mechanized outfits. Last week, having ruled out boots and spurs for motorized soldiers, the Army decided to throw out the sabre too. Also on the way out, the War Department announced, is the shiny Sam Browne belt, essentially designed to let an officer lug a sabre around without disarranging his waist belt. From now on the Sam Browne will be worn only with the blouse, and without arms-in other words, only when an officer is spruced up for dances, or trips to town...