Word: bane
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...acting, though more interesting, was less even than the play itself. The hesitation and indecisions which are the bane of amateur first-nights were sometimes in evidence. Timing was imperfect; cues were taken up slowly. The voice of the prompter was too often disconcertingly audible. In the main scenes, however, the cast almost always rose to the occasion, and acted with sincerity and poise. Miss Rosemary McHugh, as Mrs. Rooke-Walter, had most of the catch-lines. Better make-up would have enhanced an excellent attempt to enter into the spirit of the part. Katherine Roberts and Jean Goodale...
...closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy venture, ''Joe Zelli's." It failed within a week. Still rich, popular, he will continue to greet genially many of the world's prominent, some of its eminent, within the ur bane doors of his "American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls...
...Bane of the doctor is unpaid bills. In Prosperity, doctors say, patients buy luxuries instead of settling their accounts. In Depression they feel they cannot afford to pay. Like the tailor, the doctor can wait. Last week in Marceline, Mo., Dr. Ola Putman thought he had waited long enough. He added up his accounts, found patients owed him $36.000. He considered the Depression, offered to settle for two-thirds, published the offer in the Marceline 'News with a list of 75 of his debtors...
...Syndicalists, bane of the young republic, were out on a general strike. No milk was delivered, no garbage collected. Electric light and gas lines were cut. No trolleys ran. Violence started when Civil Governor Anguero visited the jail to plead with 51 hunger-striking Syndicalists to eat. The prisoners, who in some way had obtained guns, replied by firing a few wild shots, collecting all the furniture in the jail and making a bonfire of it. Riot squads rushed in to quiet them...
...officer for every 1,000 inhabitants. There are battalions of colonels, squadrons of generals. Alfonso pampered the army, for the army kept him in power (only last January he raised the pay of all lieutenants 25%, generals 10%). Republican leaders realized that the army was the bane of Spain last week but did not know what to do about it. Spanish officers cut the crowns off their uniforms last week, but did not throw them away...