Word: criticizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Critic Broun, rolling prodigiously forward...
...audience itself become the seething citizenry. The first night gathering entered hilariously into the spirit of this trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude of the piece rises to magnificence," he admitted that he would not have missed...
...machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy...
...Shaw: "Recently I was criticised by the dramatic critic of the London Times for pronouncing "isolate' with a short 'i.' A lively controversy was the inevitable result. Last week one of my enemies quoted two lines* by James Russell Lowell: He may reign (Griswold says so) first...
Lewis Carroll, who was, in real life, Professor Dodgson, an English don who taught mathematics, one day amused some children by tossing off Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-thereby becoming immortal. And now Mr. Deems Taylor, who is in real life the redoubtable music critic of The New York World, has amused himself by translating "Lewis Carroll" into an orchestral suite. It contains the following numbers: The Garden of Live Flowers, Jabberwocky, Looking Glass Insects, The White Knight...