Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern La Fontaine is not without its tabular fabric. The delightful little gathering at Dayton last summer was an excellent opportunity to observe the workings of a common language and a diverse attitude. And there are gentlemen within the limits of Cambridge who never agree except in the nasal quality of their English. Madame La Fontaine errs with the devotee of Esperanto. A common language does not imply a mutual spirit...
...would be decidedly unfair to dismiss the play because of its glaring defects. There are a gorgeous fabric of southern dialog, a true echo of the indomitable manhood of What Price Glory, a thrilling love scene, and some moments of shrewd excitement. The play will undoubtedly remain as a valuable, if fanciful, page of U. S. history. The acting of Rudolph Cameron and Helen Chandler in the chief parts was more than satisfactory. And the play is probably the only one ever produced through which the difficult southern dialect was consistently and convincingly maintained...
...picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously agreed that the PN9 No. 1 and its crew were lost. "That made me angry," said he. Commander Rodgers fashioned a sail out of a piece of wing-fabric. "He kidded us that he'd sail right up to the dock...
...Crowds at the scene of the wreck stole pieces of the ship's duraluminum frame, pieces of her fabric covering, even pieces of the dead men's clothing. The survivors tried to keep off vandals. Finally soldiers were posted, and had difficulty in restraining the crowd anxious to lay its boards on the wreckage...
...grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain objects (which...