Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite mad. He, finally despairing, but still adoring her, will play games with her as he did when they both were little tots. Neither of them will have been able to stand the gaff. So, curtain...
Last Saturday a 17-6 defeat by Yale broke a string of five straight victories for the University wrestling team and brought what was hoped to be the first really successful season in eight years to an unsuccessful close. For although the curtain will not officially drop on the 1924 season until after the New England Intercollegiate Championships at Providence Friday and Saturday, the Eli victory last week came as the climax of the year...
...final curtain tremendous enthusiasm was evinced. The actors were called "20 times" amid deafening applause. The author, said to be the tallest and thinnest man in Sweden, "was forced six times to acknowledge the plaudits of the appreciative audience...
...present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic attitude. Heroine rushes in, and the future is prophesied in the usual way. (Curtain...
...tumes little need be said, for audiences have come to take all that for granted. The French Revolution scene was unusually effective, with the spot-light focussed on Perry Askan, as the young revolutionist and the dark background filled with waving torches. The human chandelier and living curtain was as an elaborate thing of the kind as we have ever seen...