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...were putting up hay on Cal Shinn's farm. Among the six was a swashbuckling braggart who offered to bet five dollars that he could stack all the hay that the other five of us could pitch to him. We took the bet, prorating it at a dollar apiece. We laid the base for a stack and began pitching in dead earnest. The man on the stack managed to keep his head above hay for a while, but before long he was up to his neck in hay that he could not handle. He managed to extricate himself from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

...Edwin Justus Mayer announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRECTOR OF HASTY PUDDING IS PRODUCER OF "FIREBRAND" | 10/30/1925 | See Source »

PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1923 | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

PEER GYNT?Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 10, 1923 | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

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