Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ripping, old dear", if you are an Englishman, or "It's a knock-out, kid", if you are a heathen American, will be your verdict for "So This is London" which is being presented this week at the St. James Theatre. You will certainly agree that The Boston Stock Company, in choosing this play of Arthur Goodrich, has revived a spirited middle-class comedy of the better sort...
...simple people of the Department of the Gard (South France) apparently did not understand the speech, but they were glad to see their dear, smiling "Gastonnet" once more and loudly they cheered him. Said Gastonnet to them, alluding to the Alsace-Lorraine religious dispute: "Long experience has taught me that ideas never gain ground by being either spread or defended with violence. Violence adds nothing to their virtue when they have any; and it serves only to hide their appeal, to prevent their diffusion and sometimes to make them highly objectionable. Ideas which have need of violence to attain diffusion...
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...these rumors--whence are they?--foretelling an encroaching stranger to crowd back those comfortable neighbors, Grays and Matthews! Then fouler whisperings of downfall to old Boylston! Dear Boylston, old companion, whose gray and frowning brow exudes such sympathetic melancholy; staid neutralizer, in its sober thoughtfulness, against that youthful, grand, and awful Widner; that sprawling, showy presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come...
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