Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gayly if a bit ruefully. "Don't come too close, boys. . . You'll be contaminated. "Don't call me 'Dockerty.' Call me 'Daugherty,' pronouncing it Doherty... "I will let you look at me walking on the boardwalk, but I don't expect I will have anything to say about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would...
...commenting on the possibility of the Dramatic Club production being subjected to a rigorous censorship, Mayor Quinn said "At present we have heard of nothing that will demand our interference. I do not expect that there will be anything objectionable in their plays at least, I hope...
...Story. But then, of course, there isn't one?who so pedantic as to expect it? For here is the delightfully discursive scrivener of The Sun (New York) spattering ink joyously, provocatively and with impartial zeal through the fields of Art, Music, Writing, Soldiering, after-dinner Speeching, and his own particular stamping-ground of the Theatre. He sees everything...
...recognized by the respectable conservatives, its worth having been proved by more adventurous pioneers. As a result of this tendency, the show is gayer than last year's. If this acceptance of experimental results of advanced artists is to characterize the future work of Academy members, one may expect, in 20 or 30 years, to find cubism on the walls of a National Academy show...
Mayor Curley maintains that discriminating Boston audiences expect something better than licentiousness on the stage: if this is so, and they are willing to demand what they wish, the Mayor has hardly been consistent in depriving them, as he has, of the opportunity to exercise this very power of discrimination; and if his original statement is exaggerated, and Boston is really, as the atrical managers assert, a "leg-show town", it seems quite useless to attempt a reformation of character by such superficial means...