Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways he seemed like a throwback to the lumber barons, the cattle kings and the mining magnates who had ruled the West before him. Like them, he had seen the West as a vast, unfenced, unclaimed territory where a strong man could take what he wanted. Beck had wanted its roaming herds of labor. He rounded them up, hogtied them, and branded them by the thousands. He fought off Rustler Harry Bridges with one hand while piously rustling the herds of lesser unions with the other...
...Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...
...that he was only 29 (a weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist of the wrist, old fellow...
Skimmed off the top of the froth, "Margie" is another throwback to the days of the flapper, raccoon coat and Stutz Bearcat. Told in easy retrospect, "Margie" is as pleasant as on evening over the family album, and as awkward as a picture of Mother conducting a high-school debate...
...production is one of the best Boston has seen in years, despite a somewhat obtrusive score by Raymond Scott. John Houseman's direction and Robert Edmond Jones; scenery, costumes, and lighting are both intelligent and imaginative; the contrast between settings and costumes is almost a throwback to Elizabethan times, for where producer Michael Myerberg has spent a fortune of a wide assortment of gaudy costumes, the scenery is composed almost entirely of various curtain backdrops...