Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little tale which Gay Divorce has to tell relates the adventures of a young man who finds himself at an English seaside resort pining for the girl he spent a day with a fortnight before, after which she vanished. Her sudden reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is the professional corespondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer Astaire, the young man. only once loses his temper with Miss Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With...
...could be conceived than that furnished by the Lowell Institute. Through the means provided by the Institute, the man who has studied long on a problem is enabled to place directly before the people the fruits of his efforts. Thus scholarship joins hands with the persons of more practical bent to the end of a safer and better progress...
...moment a rippling movement separated the corporation into those who jumped to the left, and those who jumped to the right, to avoid disaster. Only one man took a determined stand. With his head bent slightly forward in characteristic pose, he applied a deft hand to the collar that shot past like a flash of light. The machine went on; but the rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond...
...room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third is an undergraduate with crew haircut. The first recalls the momentous occasion when the walls were dedicated. Another had many happy times here that he will never forget, but the last is barely interested. He is almost late...
...Sonata,"' best scene in Act II. is laid in the Munich Tierpark, a charming scene by Joseph Urban complete with the blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern...