Word: flings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ODTAA?John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
...blackest in the parliamentary history of the Third Republic. Opening with an illusory victory for the conciliatory foreign policy pursued by M. Briand at Locarno, the week closed with the complete sabotage of internal co-operation and even of political common sense. The deputies indulged in one more fling at legislative obstruction and partisan intrigue. They forced the resignation of the Briand Cabinet. They left France without a Government at the very moment when she needed all her prestige in the extraordinary session of the League at Geneva. (See LEAGUE.) They repudiated both Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer...
...uncrowned 'King of Scotland' is a title that has been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...
...women of various kinds of society and climate have had an unusual fling of popularity on the American stage in the last few years. Plays have been built upon those subjects which, in the words of "The Poor Nut," "It seems so public to talk about in private". Canny, producers with their ear to the ground have capitalized their patrons' taste for the salacious and thereby reaped a tritely-called golden harvest, "Rain"; although it deals frankly with the most delicate of subjects, has in it less of salacity than the average sophisticated revue. Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element...