Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched the moving sun patches on the heavy glass windows of the church. And so it has become to the normal young American more or less of a curse. It is hard at that age to dissociate the subject matter from the circumstances under which it is absorbed...
With the daily press almost unanimous in its adulation of the leaders of the present Golden Age, and the journals of opinion confining themselves to an occasional quip about the White House twang or Countess Karolyi, the surviving liberals have nothing to do but sit back until the national course of events brings Shadwell's castle tumbling about his ears...
Full and crystal-clear consideration traces the progressive relationship of a constitution "made in the days of the village blacksmith" to the titanic industry of our own age. But obviously the section on foreign relations most deeply engages the author's mind and heart. A source of serious concern to him is the ability of the House of Representatives by its revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race...
Donald Gallaher (actor who produced The Gorilla) does pretty well and the always dependable Beryl Mercer helps. The chief interest of the opening evening was in the theatre. It is the Criterion, where you have seen The Covered Wagon, The Ten Commandments, etc., returning in its old age to an early and memorable allegiance to the spoken drama...
Arias, songs, melodies, tunes were not to be found in this world premiere; they belong to the age of Caruso. To II Pagliacci were left the Lombardy folk-dances of simple peasants and villagers; A Light from St. Agnes offered a bunnyhug done by small town riff raff...