Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a responsibility to his government, and Miss Elder is not. It is impossible for anyone, particularly a young woman, to fly towards Europe without incurring such publicity that an appearance upon the Stage becomes an anti-climax; and even if this were not so, what is the public eye which some people still regard as synonymous with the evil eye--compared to a small but substantial fortune which will enable one to enjoy obscurity for life if it be desired...
...weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more than most of his colleagues, is possessed of an eye for the dramatic, and his style is rendered most vigorous by the frequent use of the present tense and very short sentences much after Caesar's own "I came, I saw, I conquered...
THIS dulcified and emasculate redaction of Mr. Firebaugh's originally very satisfactory translation of Petronius, pot house odyssey has evidently been prepared with an eye to the smut smellers and moral snoopers who, a few years since, swore out a warrant for the apprehension and arrest of the author, patently a fellow named Arbiter, who could probably be located in the phone book. Their failure to lay hands on Nero's contemporary seemed in on way to discourage the crusaders, but rather encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression...
...Revolution. What modern panorama is so much like the march to Versailles as the sight of those crowds which billow and surge down Boylston Street, filling every square, inch of the lane between Smith Halls and the subway walls? Thousands mill around thousands and the vista as far as eye can reach in November dusk is one of bobbing heads and shoulders...
...rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for the "gout americain." Miss Barrymore is pleasing to the eye and gives an exceedingly finished performance. Miss Verree Teasdale takes the part of Marie Louise, the attractive but inconstant wife and fills the bill admirably. Mr. Aubrey Smith's performance as John, the prominent and unfaithful Harley Street surgeon, was uniformly excellent. The fact is that whole play provides...