Word: buttercups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people in several hundred handsome gowns and uniforms; and a cast of notables including Marguerite Namara, Tom Burke, Jack Hazzard, William Danforth, Marion Green. And last, but by no means least, Fay Templeton. Miss Templeton emerges out of a luxurious and presumably peaceful retirement in Pittsburgh to play Little Buttercup. She weighs three times what she did when she was the queen of the old Weber and Fields music hall. The audience, boisterously affectionate in their greeting, agreed with the captain of the Pinafore that she was "a plump and pleasing person...
...plays "Little Buttercup" in H. M. S. Pinafore? (See THE THEATRE...
...appropriate spring touches are added by a dialogue between two Tabanidae see classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair...
...birth certificates had always been stamped with the footprints of the newly-born-babe--its finger-prints being too minute--Buttercup's famous blunder would be impossible, and that favorite plot-device would be gratefully banished. If everyone securing marriage licenses were to be "printed", divorce charges could be proved with greater certainly, and the possibility of a woman's acquiring an escaped convict for a husband would be slightly lessened...