Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moss Hart; Sam Harris, producer). "What are you having?" a young man at Richard Niles's party asks Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail to enjoy themselves...
...lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet, Rhode Island, pumped her in the eye with a BB gun, costing their fathers...
...tones that at this hour of darkness had no right, according to all the parietal rules, to issue forth from within the monastic confines of the ivy-clad Georgian depths. In a glance his trained eye had the situation in hand and his other eye began to comprehend and follow uncertain but trusting the leadership of its more intelligent brother...
...person of such undoubted financial acumen, to make such a definitely favorable prediction is indeed encouraging, the more so when one realizes that the person is an Englishman, at a period when the English as a whole regard the American experiment as a groping, blundering attempt to follow in their footsteps. It is devoutly to be hoped that this leaflet will prove to be another feather in the already well-bedecked cap of Mr. Angas...
...meet, which begins at 3.30, will follow a route slightly different from that of previous years. Beginning as usual near the Larz Anderson Bridge, the harriers will go up the right-hand side of the river but instead of taking in Cemetery hill, they will detour below it; road construction necessitating the change. the runners will finish at the Newell Boat House...