Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Happily, the play does not at the same time sink into the sloughs which is the grave of so many who strive to tread the tremendous and slippery path of the golden mean. Whether this is due alone to the quality of the acting which lifts the audience safely over the soft places, it is difficult to say. Enough that the fact remains that the work of the small cast of five is practically without exception excellent...
Today it is not a question of Power behind the Throne. Rather the British Empire, face to face with grave problems of curtailed trade and dire unemployment, looks to the Throne as a source of strength superior to political Power...
...Grave issues of state and politics sharply focused world interest, last week, on Edward of Wales and on the leaders of Great Britain's three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York...
...Significance. In fixing upon a label for the rung above Babbittry, Mr. Lewis evidently recognized his grave responsibility to vocabulary, for he wavered and fussed, changed and substituted, before committing himself to "Dodsworth." His difficulty is plain: Dodsworth, no simple ameba, reacts to stimulae of the shifting European scene not automatically but thoughtfully, individually. Dodsworth is a type, recognizable, familiar; but the type is susceptible to variations. Fran's type also is familiar−to those who read Henry James, and dally in cosmopolitan circles. Literati have even traced resemblances to the first Mrs. Lewis, substituted dark...
...Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges about President Lowell. Was not this news, or was it to be ignored as "the policy of sensationalism of one of a large number of radical journals," or were all the Crimson editors engaged in writing interviews with Gilda Gray? Perhaps the paper was all full; among the important...