Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether Washington's coat had three or four buttons on it will fade into insignificance beside the question whether Major Andre was betrayed into the hands of the Americans by a woman. "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" will find it hard to compete with "You tell 'em, kid". Washington crossing the Delaware huddled in the stern-sheets of a Chesapeake sharpy, hardly cuts as magnificent a figure as he does in the famous painting of that name, nor can we help suspecting that John Smith discovered by a jealous red skin in the wigwam...
...ponderous editorials," snapped the man who merely scans the headlines. "Nobody reads 'em nowadays...
...noise is not all. There are two technical points that make all the difference between a dull, heavy roar and spirited singing. Roll every r: "rrrip 'em thrrrough!" And sing as staccato as possible by putting an h before each vowel. Really "Hit the line for Harvard;" make "The cheers frrrom the Harvard hosts rrring high" mean something; and on the last line of the Marseillaise don't sing a feeble "Anon to victory," but a short, snappy prophetic: "hon hon to victory." ABBOTT LOW MOFFAT...
...Give 'em what they want, as Cleopatra used to say"--thus ends Mr. A. H. Woods' article in the New York Tribune telling why he produces bedroom farces. According to Mr. Woods the free and breezy plays are what the public wants, and that is why so many are written and produced. Even Shakespeare, says the modern concocter of the tired business man's farcical cocktails, wrote to please the public taste of his time. If Shakespeare were living and were to come to Mr. Woods with the manuscript of "Macbeth", the latter states that he would say, "Bill, they...
...Look at the way we smash and rip 'em through...