Word: braggarts
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...picture about seal hunting which the late Varick Frissell, Yale '26, nephew of Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot, was finishing when his ship blew up off White Bay, Newfoundland, killing him and 25 others (TIME, March 23). It tells a feeble love story about two sealers, one a braggart, the other a "jinker" (unlucky sealer), both attached to the same girl. But interesting and important is the middle part of the picture where the love story is practically forgotten and there is shown a journalistic record of a perilous and picturesque method of earning a livelihood. Producer Frissell secured...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy Gish's part (her second off the screen) was only a small one-the naïve daughter of the braggart mayor and his cheap wife. The total effect of the cast was better than any of its parts-a gallery of wretched pantaloons topped off just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian...
...goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade the State at Washington with further clownishness and poltroonery...
...effects of the lines to their greatest extent. He bellows and boasts as a Major in the army of Bullgarial; and his poses, hitherto obnoxious, become enjoyable. I was almost induced to go the grave of John the Baptist and apologize for not understanding that he, too, was a braggart. Mr. Jewett forgot that he was the great Shakesperian actor, and became an understanding Shavion interpreter...