Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Careful Greeterism has lately turned, like others of the world's great artistic movements, to classicism for its inspiration. I think it was Nennius who said. So act that each greeting, broadly implied, will never give a clue to your own true feeling...
Beginning in 1833 intrusions by the secular authority caused bitterness. In accordance with the original constitutions of the church, the General Assembly in 1834 passed the famed Veto Act, providing that no pastor need be accepted by a congregation contrary to the wishes of a majority of its members...
Peace Efforts. By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment. To provide for them and to build churches was the enormous task Dr. Chalmers and his colleagues undertook. At the end of four years more than 700 churches had been provided. The Free Church, vigorous, evangelical, prospered. In 1900 it combined with the United Presbyterian Church...
...three women in the play are cast almost perfectly. Clare Eames, as the nurse, is tremendously moving, though once or twice a little over-hating. Casha Pringle, as the wife, is a small-faced, tense English girl, who, when she removed her opera wrap in the first act, revealed a figure which caused the audience to gasp with approval. Mary Jerrold, as the mother, is wise and charming...
...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...