Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crudely, there are two different kinds of knowledge--knowledge and experienced knowledge. The value of experience in any pursuit is well recognized. What does experience mean? It means, doing something--employing other senses than merely those of sight or hearing. It means touching things, it means motion, it means action. An act repeated a few times becomes infinitely more a part of you than a hazy mass of accumulated fact. The secret is open: pick out the fundamental truths from the confusion,--there are hundreds of channels to these truths--and then experience them...
...fighting Gallishaw was wounded on October 23, 1915, by a bullet which entered his left shoulder. He was sent to a hospital in Egypt and was later moved to London. On recovery, in January, he was declared unfit for service and was discharged in consequence of wounds received in action in Gallipoli, after serving 301 days with the colors. At the same time he was given a high testimonial of character by his superior officers. His battalion was recruited to full war strength again, 1,100 men, and was sent to France. On July 1, 1916, there were...
...Good Gracious, Annabelle," which has only just opened at the Park Square Theatre, is one of the most delightful comedies that has appeared in Boston for some time. Light and thoroughly enjoyable in action and dialogue, the success of the comedy is yet due in larger part to the highly commendable performance of the individual members of the cast, for, after all, the task of creating roles devolves rather upon those who present, rather than upon those whose imaginations have drawn them...
...opening of the first act, one derives the impression that the humor is to be poor, and the action weak, this fear is quickly dispelled by the entrance of Miss Fisher as Annabelle Leigh, who has a husband somewhere, and Mr. Nicander as George Wimblton, who recognizes the day after New Year's as the only time when he is likely to be sober. Once they have made their appearance the dialogue is transformed into a new and ultimate thing fairly overflowing with life. Characterization and personality appear as if by magic, and the whole action is enlivened and lightened...
...Hampden, characterizing John Rawson, a wealthy Western mine owner, gains in effectiveness as the action progresses, and despite the quite improbable plot in which the author has placed him, makes very creditable account of himself. But light roles do not seem to fit him as well as those more serious ones which he has heretofore taken...