Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadly uneven affair, The Silver Whistle is all the same a pleasantly unusual one. There may be nothing new about the theme (which is simply that people crave illusions, that while there's hope there's life), but the particulars are often fresh and lively. Mildly Saroyanesque throughout and a trifle Pollyannaish at the end, in its best scenes The Silver Whistle is genuinely funny, whether from the hobo's taradiddles or from dodderers who, with one foot in the grave, suddenly kick up commotion with the other...
...Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with . . . vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche . . . Really, the English do not deserve to have great...
...Grange, star of another era and another style of football, is all for the new. Said he: "You like to get spelled off once in a while. If you aren't, it can get pretty rugged in the fourth quarter." In fact, with fresh substitutions entering all the time, fans were now more apt to get a full 60 minutes of do-or-die football...
...attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used to run out to get her fresh cigarettes when her supply...
...When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...