Word: act
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case of danger. Their commissions will make them officers in the second line of defence, subject to immediate mobilization--a definite and essential part in the national defence. As such they must be a powerful, disciplined organization, fitted for difficult tasks and heavy responsibilities. They must be able to act promptly and intelligently in great emergencies, just as the French reservists in the present war, who threw themselves into the breach and saved their nation from defeat...
...word as to the extremely proficient acting. It is impossible perhaps for an American wholly to understand the hard, rapid, brilliant, soullessly technical style of French acting in general. The company now at the Copley is very representative of this style. Mm. Darthy, as the eye-rolling, contralto-voiced heroine was interesting. During the big scene, when Claire tells her Ironmaster she has never loved him, I watched M. Benedict, as the latter, to see how a French husband is supposed to act under such circumstances. The result was rather funny. M. Cassin, as the Duke, did not look very...
...such a vessel comes in sight of a submarine and, as was suggested by a Senator in debate, "Shoots at sight," the Germans would have a right under international law to consider it a hostile act and the beginning of formal war on the part of the United States. The immunity from armed attack except on due notice, which the United States justly claims for our merchantmen, holds only if such vessels do not attack nor resist nor flee...
...other hand suppose the submarine gets near enough to discharge a torpedo or a gun if the vessel is thereby sunk, that is the overt act for which the United States has been waiting. If there is any opportunity, our armed ship presumably will reply and war would begin then and there; but in this case demonstrably by the act of the Germans...
Miss Abarbanell, of "Madame Sherry" and "Merry Widow" fame, has the leading role and her work, after the first act, makes the evening more than satisfactory. She features in waltzes in a way that makes one long to be the leading man. Essentially a Latin type, Miss Abarbanell uses her voice in a most stirring manner and, as a Russian dancer, is true to form in carriage as well. She has many tricks of the eye, shoulders and head that seem almost even Spanish...