Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Mr. Justice McCardie in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice went one of those periodic scandals that causes the various strata of British society to experience the gamut of emotions...
...sparks that it struck off were only feeble glints of starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
...play that starts out as a critical analysis of the part played in love by physical attraction and that ends as a rather clever comedy, the Boston Stock Company presented "The Misleading Lady" at the St. James Theatre last night. The play runs the gamut of everything common to all comedies from cave-man philosophy to a lunatic. The acting is decidedly spotty, but the good points in both the play and the east come...
...living Harvard men, individuals of every conceivable type and tendency. They are of all degrees of intellectuality, high and low. We know some of them whose English will never incur criticism by reason of its Shakespearian qualities. Harvard graduates, like those of other universities, run the whole gamut of civilized mankind. We have never seen any real indication that one type predominates over a thousand others. The typical Harvard man and the Harvard manner are both of them a myth. Some day, we hope, the public imagination will forget it. The Boston Transcript...
...regime, the tradition of scholarly leisure becomes more and more precious. As the academic profession falls within the grasp of efficient doers, the triple-distilled essence of Copey's individuality is the more highly prized. His is a distinct personality which stimulates in those whom he touches a wide gamut of emotional vibration, ranging from admiration...