Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pitt was (on its opening night) an inept and incoherent production, possibly aggravated by Producer Pemberton, under the burden of presenting three productions in five days (The Living Mask, Mister Pitt, The Marionette Man}. Differences between the stage hands and the eleven sets of scenery multiplied confusion...
...have been very difficult for a sort of Zeus to take the form of a man and do the things that He did. It is definitely more remarkable that a mere human saw the truth and had the strength to live by it; such, at least, is the burden of Mr. Hartt's thesis...
...Such an address would truthfully express the general mind of the House and the decision of the electors, and would reduce and limit to normal constitutional dimensions the burden placed upon the Crown...
...build up a system of railways prepared to handle promptly all the interstate traffic of the country. It aims to give the owners of the railways an opportunity to earn enough to maintain their properties and equipment in such a state of efficiency that they can carry well this burden...
Alfred Lunt, as the drunken youth, carries the burden of the leading part with extraordinary comprehension and performance. Beryl Mercer (lately Queen Victoria) adds another memorable portrait to her stage gallery as the charwoman. Lionel Watts, Leslie Howard, and Margalo Gillmore lend competence that edges upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps...