Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions. And therein lies the essential reason for the economic prosperity of America and the depression of England, with its resultant Labor agitation. Instead of theorizing and regretting new conditions. America meets them, and makes the best of them, while Englishmen are at a loss for a course of action...
...offices of the New York World, Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope read the despatches. It was a good news story, duly featured. Then a week later, he heard rumors that there was more to be found in Aiken than what came in the despatches. His dynamic brain developed action. He called for one of his ablest, muckraking reporters, Oliver H. P. Garrett, said: "Garrett, go to South Carolina. . . ." The World must still crusade. Reporter Garrett went; and for the last fortnight the World's columns have bristled with his stories...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...audience fidgets, dwindles. The play means nothing to the unphilosophical. Of action there is practically nothing. Of emotion there is plenty, but what audience can sympathize with characters torn by the incomprehensible? Naked seems to be, in translation at least, a noble effort staggering beneath the weight of an idea too great for the strength...
...play is an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 of "The Love of the Three Oranges", an early eighteenth century Italian comedy by Carlo Gozzi. All the fantastic characters of the old Comedie del Arte, of which this play is a fine type, flaunt their explosive fun throughout the action of the play. Mr. Seldes has carefully revised Gozzi's original, and has made of the fairy tale that was its fabric, an amusing travesty on modern life and customs...