Word: exclaims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...
...Tokyo the respected Masaomi Hirayama, priest of Buddha, author of admired tracts concerning The Four Noble Truths and The Holy Eightfold Path, was gravely congratulated by his fellow priests, last week, on having observed for 48 years those virtues which caused the ancient sages to exclaim : "Serene and blessed is the Buddha. . . . Lo, so many distinguished nobles lead now a religious life under the direction of the Blessed One that fathers will soon beget no more children...
...middle of the game," said Lewis, "I heard one of the Penn tackles, Sam Goodman, exclaim in a tone of amazement, "What's the matter? We can't seem to gain anywhere." We held them consistently, and managed to get a touchdown and a field goal, winning the game 10-0." The team also defeated Yale, Army, Brown, Carlisle, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin and Williams that year...
Readers often exclaim when told that writers are paid ten oents, twenty-five cents, a dollar or even more--a world for their stories. Few realize the fact that the monetary value of words in commercial activities may be greater than than placed upon the works of even the highest paid authors...
Director Homer St. Gaudens of the Fine Arts section of the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh) last week returned from Europe with an announcement that made the art world sit up and exclaim, "Well, well! That will be interesting...