Word: captiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of Arnold Korff, who has a tendency to throw himself about too much so that the audience is occasionally distracted, and misses the essential action, the acting of the entire cast was flawless. On reflection, it is captious to complain about Mr. Korff; his suppressed guffaws and waving of arms were in keeping with the part of the second-rate good-natured composer. Jay Fassett, Earle Larrimore, and Ina Claire are the principals; be it sufficient to say that they are consummate professionals, that Miss Claire's laugh is infectious, and that a few more actresses...
...best-seller for 24 months-not equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written of them." Some captious critics think Authoress Buck's reputation as unsubstantial as China's boundaries, but plain readers who do not worry their heads about literary hierarchies continue to read her with pleasure & profit. This collection of stories about China, though somewhat over-reverently introduced by Publisher Walsh of John Day Co., speaks for itself...
Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...
...strings upon which captious critics of our college system delight to play is the uselessness of the national honor society. It is alleged that brilliant achievement in the arts and sciences implies a social responsibility, which Phi Beta Kappa has never adequately shouldered. It will be remembered that in the publication which the society inaugurated last year, its leaders promised to break their long silence, and speak to a confused world with the authority which attends recognized ability. The world economic situation was analyzed in its several phases, national discussion of a quiet kind was provoked, and then the society...
...captious folk this outlay of Gershwin revealed a weakness of structure, a lack of variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody...