Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...Forestalling possible sneering questions from CRIMSON readers, I will explain my play in full, reckless of the confusion it may throw into Fisher's camp. I have worked it out mathematically and proved that it will work...
...fact which is harder to explain than the success of the play is that its patronage comes, it would appear, in a very considerable measure from the two races which are lampooned. To the neutral observer at the Castle Square Monday night it seemed that the assembly was divided into two cheering sections, each urging on its chosen cohorts in the battle of wits on the stage. The amazing feature was that everyone took the caricaturing of his own race as a great joke. Caricature is, by the way, the correct word, for only the Irish girl most charmingly played...
...unofficial. "There is no consistent support, and we even have trouble in putting on Galsworthy. The other source of apathy, that of the official is caused by a most amiable man called the Lord Chamberlain. Officially he is a danger to the State." Mr. Dean went on to explain that the Lord Chamberlain was the official censor, and proved even less capable of judging plays than his prototype here in America...
...task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...