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...True To Be Good," boyish and earnest for the most part, unconvincing in many moment. Hugh Sinclair is most constantly heard: "Popsy's satisfied so long as you let him talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...most penetrating. They are the quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Nemesis? | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Fitchburg, Mass., Donald Maegan received a bash on the face from an automobile accident which straightened his nose. His nose had been crooked since a similar accident five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Backers | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

When the fish are running, the "brownies" wade into the shallows, bash the fish with their paws. When the churned water becomes calm they stick their snoots in the water, extract their fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last of the Brownies? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Messin' Around is another Negro musical show with an assortment of prancing and harmonics common to what has unfortunately become the type. There are two female pugilists who bash each other with seemingly unfeigned zeal, but they scarcely constitute an entertainment quorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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