Word: flatterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arlington, the theatre reopened this week with Fritz Leiber billed for a four weeks' appearance in a series of Shakespeare's plays. If his subsequent presentations are on a par with his "Hamlet," in which he is to continue until the middle of the week, Boston Shakespeareans may flatter themselves that they are in for an enjoyable month...
...talked to his Vice President, General J. J. Carty, in Washington, D. C. Said President Gifford, dapper, cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed the changing smiling features of the General on the glass in the yellow frame before him. "Yes," he said, "I think it's an improvement...
...moments of musing on this and that and things in general, that the impressions of things which are gained during childhood continue to tinge one's thoughts even after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew...
...last week, at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.). The young ladies performed a pageant adapted from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...
...between Sunday and Sunday about every lecturer faces an audience three successive times and in fifty three minutes condemns them to dullness or leads them to light. To call him an actor is perhaps to flatter, perhaps to foil. Yet after all, higher learning is amusement--or it is dead. So the lecturer and the vaudeville artist have something in common, more than either would willingly grant...