Word: great
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...live on a great island continent away from the other continents and unprotected. It is therefore of great importance to us not to become embroiled in quarrels that have stained the history of olden lands...
Fall of Briand. Not merely big but great is Aristide Briand, first Frenchman to bury the War, shaggy-headed, sleepy-eyed but profoundly sagacious builder of friendship and conciliation between France and Germany. As he faced the Chamber of Deputies, just reconvened last week after a three-month vacation, M. Briand knew well enough that his eleventh Cabinet was tottering...
...book that was keeping him alive, but another book by Georges Clémenceau appeared on U. S. bookstalls last week.** In two ponderous volumes the Tiger agilely avoids autobiography, memoirs, history; explains at great length his carefully reasoned atheism under such headings as: Abstraction; Myths; Religious Bargains and Their Results; Philosophic Doubt; Diffusion; Cosmogonies; Cosmology...
...fives and tens of thousands, up went the price. Clemenceau each time explaining that the Times had gone higher. When $80,000 was reached, Publisher Boni telephoned from Paris to Manhattan. He suggested to the Times that they were cutting each other's throats. Whereat the Times expressed great surprise because it had not been bidding at all. Off went Publisher Boni well content to let the Tiger whistle...