Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor makes those who go to see it inclined to inquire closely into what justification the play presents for the judges' decision. To the audience which saw the opening night in Boston at the Arlington Theater of Paul Green's "In Abraham's Bosom," however, there was little doubt but that this play fully merited some such honor as the Pulitzer award it received last winter...
Although this production is worth seeing, a doubt cannot but arise whether Ibsen justifies the effect which his plays require. For, after all, the dramatisation of what would have made an excellent novel is bound to be disappointing...
...required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them together, in completing the terminal essays--to say nothing of the tutorial assignments for the period. In order to make the transition gradual, however, strict course assignments are no doubt necessary...
...Juana is a town just across the Mexican border famed for ruthless infamy. In Tia Juana, it is said, one may go swiftly and uncouthly to perdition. Trading upon this no doubt hard-earned reputation, a melodrama has been christened for the town. It is a leaden thing, studded with murder, Chinamen smuggling, federal agents; almost every element of melodrama except excitement...
...mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble an estimate of the value of his works that he was generally surprised at the interest they created...