Word: angularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single set and only four actors. Accordingly Her First Affaire falls short of perfection by only one actor. In its cast of five is Aline MacMahon whose performances in Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little...
...Sempack is the Wellsian spokesman, an angular, hairy length of finely developed humanity who shambles about among the guests of a pretty Mrs. Cynthia Rylands on the Italian Riviera, talking calmly, kindly, but grimly and incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including...
...take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches...
This ancient, able, angular seer of baseball, who shares managerial honors with John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, led his Philadelphia club to its first American League pennant in 1902. He repeated the feat in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914. At the conclusion of the 1914 campaign, he found that his winning habits had had a deadening, unprofitable effect on his public. Philadelphians were sure that Mack's team would win; were spending their money to witness sports in which the element of chance was more noticeable...
Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...