Word: ado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...
Carew, impersonated by Lawrence Cecil, his servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action...
...Everlasting Life" gives evidence of the author's ability to write clearly; but in itself it is not distinguished. The last paragraph will surely seem to some readers, not unreasonably, superfluous. "Love 1" is at best much ado about nothing. The first three paragraphs are tedious and muddy; the last two, insipid. It seems the work of a weary man who is expected to write something arresting, witty, facetious, and who would fain comply with the editors' demand. It certainly is neither witty, nor facetious, nor arresting. However pressed for material the editors may have been it was not kind...
Forbes-Robertson supports Henry Irving in Much Ado About Nothing, also painting for Irving the church scene that hangs today in the Players' Club, N. Y. . . . A brother actor is stabbed by a madman. . . . Gilbert quarrels with Sullivan. . . . John Clayton solves the question of corresponding with inept authors: "My dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh! My very dear Sir! Yours truly, John Clayton." In 1885, Mary Anderson tours the U. S. "J. F.-R.," her leading man, is enchanted by American sunshine. General Sherman wrings his hand in St. Louis; General Lee's daughters charm...
...rgermeister Baron of Schoeppenstedt, dressed immaculately in evening clothes, top hat, opened the city's new natatorium. He told his audience that "schport"* would make fine citizens for the Fatherland and that swimming was the finest of all "schports." Without more ado he plunged into the swimming pool, top hat and all. On all sides exploded salvos of admiring "hochs...