Word: curly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragedies of the art of acting that when the last cur tain falls there is nothing to hold the expression of a great personality for future generations. Sarah Bern hardt is gone, and those who do not hold the impress of her dynamic genius on the tables of reminiscence can know her only as a cloudy legend, obscured by time and by the many puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful...
...plainly the point of view of the particular individuals in "Three Soldiers" which has aroused the ire of your reviewer. How long since an artist has been compelled by any canon of literature to choose for his creatures only paragons of virtue? Have we not had cur war books from the point of view of those who gloried in the slaughter, the propaganda attempts to make war attractive, the sort of thing which is perfectly "safe" to issue in wartime, at least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what...
Evidently American and British hospitality are not so widely divergent after all. We have always been taught to think the British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums...