Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligent although far from sparkling play is Laetitia McDonald's (Mrs. Wallace Irwin) "Lady Alone". During the first two acts the audience wonders when the real plot is going to begin and then in the very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result...
...sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
Conclusion. "His Majesty's Government are not concerned with the domestic affairs of Russia nor with its form of government. All they require is that that Government should refrain from interference with purely British concerns and abstain from hostile action or propaganda against British subjects...
...butchery had indeed caused about half the 110,000 strikers to return to work, but in London the Laborite Daily Herald pertinently exclaimed: "Had the Nationalists [Cantonese] done this, what a cry of horror and indignation would have been raised in this country, what a call for strong action! But this 'white terror's' victims are only trades unionists, so the author is 'the defender of Shanghai' to British Tories...
...supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild west show, as full of metaphysics as a German university, and more exciting than any combination...