Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...
...House. Dryly, vigorously he defended the right of a minority member to register opposition to a proposal which he, Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee, had endorsed. After his speech, Mr. Madden went from the floor to his Committee's suite, where he sat chatting with a friend about the ecent Illinois primary in which he had been nominated for a 13th consecutive term in the House. A few minutes later, the cloakroom stirred with a grave excitement. Debate on the floor dwindled and the House fell silent. Representative Williams of Illinois entered and announced that Martin Barnaby Madden...
...Calling in the gaping newshawks, he addressed them in slightly broken English as follows: "You gentlemen have been altogether too kind. ... I am reminded of a French story which portrays a well-meaning gentleman using a stone in killing a fly which had perched on the head of a friend...
...related that while he was making this dusty place for a flyer to stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under...
...Evening Graphic and other periodicals which wear the disguise of shockingly slight physicul-turism, last week purchased a school for boys, The Castle Heights Military Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...