Word: antics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty of time and after many an antic he discovers that the Rolls-Royce lady is unworthy and returns peacefully to the girl next door. Harry Langdon's lonely innocence is most excellently done...
Dozens of important men in finance have worked on Mr. Barren's staffs. When they first take a walk with him they feel like Falstaff's page. But he is no antic master, rather always the teacher. Brokerage houses hunt his men, offer them salaries even larger than they get from Mr. Barron...
...Berlin, antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
...Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...
...same evening George Dandin, Molière's sophisticated trifle of the uncouth husband who was hoodwinked by his philandering, patrician wife, is revived prettily in a good English translation. But all its antic graces cannot hide the fact that it is a gilded potboiler. It is done in the mode of that simpering, formal period when Truth was nothing and an attitude everything...