Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...
...gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick received all blame. Commentators based their criticism, in essence, upon the curtain line of Act I: "The whole thing has been a mistake, a failure...
Last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there was an air of finality to the way the curtain fell on the grim ending of Carmen. The claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...
...remainder of the cast was good and the audience was more than attentive. In face, at the end of the third act they were so carried along by the rush of the play that they forgot to applaud as the curtain came down. Such a tribute is rare in Boston and there is reason to believe that it was deserved...
...play makes pretty good reading, but there is absolutely nothing distinguished about it from the first scene to the final curtain. The lines and mechanical construction of the play show familiarity with what can and what cannot be produced, but the lines are by no means uniformly and consistently good...