Word: beane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...host, an anti-feminist who of course gets caught, and who ought really to have known better at his age. There is the bachelor, who was jilted thirty years ago, and the married man of fifty who was happy until he quarreled with his wife over a coffee bean. They all wrangle without feminine let or hindrance to show how bad undiluted masculinity can be until they are diverted from their petty selfishness and cajoled by Woman, nee Miss Tobin...
...roasting of the cocoa bean . . . requires a certain tact which is akin to inspiration...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
...subsequent reign was marked by a broad humanity. He revived the gorgeous costumes and extensive retinue of his ancestors, yet lived both frugally and simply. His taste for jam and for bean sauces is still said to be marked, but he has seldom indulged in these edibles to excess. His people grew to know and love him as a dignified personage with dark, luminous eyes, and possessed of very remarkable powers of oratory. For nine years he reigned. Then his health broke down utterly...
...Lawrence has written another play around his favorite theme. A couple, hopelessly out of love with each other, rebel against the Divine Will that bids amorous romance vanish soon after marriage. They decide to live in the illusion that they are really in love. It may be only "throwing bean bags at the Gods" but it will be a righteous gesture against divine tyranny. In their common enthusiasm for the game, they find that the spark of their former love is rekindled. The sour grapes are within reach-and sweet. The trouble with the play is that so much...