Word: dilemna
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...highly melodramatic dress rehearsal wherein the lights come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York throws its arms wide and hails it as the success of the season. Which all goes to prove oh, not very much...
...father as associate editor of that paper. But alas, although the father was once a great editor, the son knows not the meaning of pen and paper, but leans rather towards dry goods management. We just couldn't think how Mr. Purdy would get his puppets out of this dilemna. We thought of sending Joe Bagley to a new tailor, and even of sending Kenneth back to Kentucky, but for the life of us we couldn't guess that Kenneth would manage Joe's department store, while Joe wrote the editorials. It's just too wonderful what some authors will...
...question of whether the clock was turned back an hour on Saturday night or on Sunday morning might well furnish the theme for a hot debate. It is much the same problem as that in the old Greek dilemna of the lawyer and his prentice. But waiving this point, it is probable that nobody felt the effect of the turning except in a fresher sensation when he waked. Another unnoticed effect there was also. The quitting of Daylight Saving Time has put a period to the summer. No longer can one pretend merrily that 12 o'clock...