Word: anon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democratic side of the aisle, in the rear row, Heflin of Alabama shone, his elephantine frame resplendent in cream colored pongee. Ever and anon the great chider would burst forth in oratory, belaboring the Republicans ?regular and insurgent?making the galleries laugh. When a Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark...
...Ever and anon there rises to speak In the Lower House of Congress a man who, in respect of learning, is without equal in that chamber. Long since, in college days, he would challenge his fellows to read any two lines of Shakespeare which he could not locate-play, act, scene. Today the story persists that the kitchen-range in his bachelor apartment is piled high with books...
...drug store has grown, so grows the press. First employed to propagate information, its functions have been successively enlarged. It becomes a gatherer of information, a purveyor of amusement, a persuader of public opinion. Is this only a beginning? Ever and anon a paper branches into some new activity, startling in its ambition. Last week Collier's, a weekly of this and that, decided to attempt an experiment in Government. It had a plan for municipal government. It not only explained and advocated its plan, it also offered to lend the active assistance of a number of its staff...
...horrible mixtures of farce and comedy served up to us by authors, who, apparently, distinguish not at all between the two moods, a play such as "You and I" must come as a welcome relief. For here Mr. Barry has given to us not a comedy which ever and anon lapses into farce, but a true comedy of character. With the sure touch of the artist, and with rare humour, the author has revealed to us a portion of the life of the people around us, and it is pleasant to leave his play, and, going into the world outside...
...that a college man although starting four years behind his less schooled competitor would pass him easily when he did start. Now the weary senior who starts out immediately on his career is in the position he once could despise. He is the unschooled one to be passed anon by his former classmates, no matter what his forte...