Word: deus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When. Long ago it became obvious that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans...
...because he can get somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina of the U. S. cinema industry, took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with...
...itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the ' Immaculate Conception" (of Mary) was defined as "of faith" as late as 1854 by Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus." It maintains that, while Mary was conceived in the manner common to all human beings, the Lord made her immaculate at the moment of conception; in this way her absolute sinlessness was provided...
Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...