Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Contrast...
...brotherhood. It has remained for Mr. Hilaire Belloc to seek the same end by emphasizing our differences. Not long ago Mr. Belloc was solving what he considers to be the Jewish problem by classifying the Jews as a distinct nation not to be confused with ordinary people. In The Contrast, he is proposing to solve in a similar manner what he has discovered to be the American problem. In the interest of peace, harmony and the comity of nations he sets out to prove the profundity of the contrast?physical, social, political, religious and literary?between the U.S. and Europe...
...those of Mr. Harding, Mr. Bryan or General Pershing?we walk differently and act differently. Our nation moves and thinks with a suddenness, a violence and a uniformity unknown abroad; we allow ourselves to be taken in by Mr. H. G. Wells, and we have?it is the one contrast which no Englishman ever forgets?bathtubs...
...contrast between the different scenic effects in the two acts of "Who's Who" is one of the most startling imaginable. While that in the second act is most gorgeous and elaborate, the first act is played on an undecorated stage. The comedy skit "Antony and Cleopatra" is the high spot of the first act and yet the colored comedians perform as if in rehearsal, on the bare boards...
...Dramatic Interlude The Story. Two rivals aspire for the hand of Rita Kilblaine, nee Majendie, beautiful young widow of an old roué. One of the rivals is Dan Haggerty, he-man from the flannel-shirted West. The other rival is one Captain Daingerfield, who, by way of contrast, is no wizard at business. In fact, his obliging old uncle has settled an allowance of $20,000 a year on him with the express stipulation that he is not to attempt any more business...