Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having vented this spleen George Moore lapsed back into his easy chair, grew pensive, and finally reconsidered. Said he, as the intoxication of his play's success wore off, "Of course what I said did not apply to admittedly outstanding writers of today . . . Kipling for instance...
...Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern county as the Anti-Saloon League. The industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians...
Skinner's Big Idea. Three loyal dotards had to be fired. Skinner (Bryant Washburn), young, newly elected member of the firm had to discharge them as his first duty. Instead he imported a stenographer, peppy, once a showgirl (Martha Sleeper). Stimulated, the dotards grew chipper, chirrupy. One bought a toupeé, all bought brassies. Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk...
...residence sections, we spend long summer afternoons on green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
Bringing Up Father. A kick in the pants is the humor of this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...