Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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*With a very British sense of humor. When a distinguished bore came to lunch and was in full drone, Sir William Nicholson would give a signal, whereupon the whole family would jump up, dash madly around the table, and plump down again in their seats as if nothing had happened...
As playwriting, Red Gloves again reveals Sartre's ability to melodramatize ideas, to make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre...
High weights he had to carry and high taxes his owner had to pay (as much as 80% of the purses) cut Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year...
To the caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands...
Last week Ned Ohrbach stepped out in new company: he opened a store on the "Miracle Mile" of Los Angeles' snazzy Wilshire Boulevard (in Prudential's big new building). To strike a spark, he had stocked the store with cotton dresses at $1, woolen dresses at $3.95, nylons...