Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daisy Mayme, middle-aged merchant-maid of Harrisburg, lonesome but always laughing, meets Cliff Mettinger, bachelor, and his orphan niece on the bright shore at Atlantic City. She goes to Cliff's suburban home as the family guest, there to encounter feminine intrigue: Cliff's two sisters eager for his money. During the downpour of a domestic storm, Daisy blossoms forth a late but hardy bride. As usual, Mr. Kelly subordinates action to characterization and dialogue, with the result that his play moves slowly. As usual, Mr. Kelly's protagonists tell Mr. Kelly's antagonists just...
Miss Mary Cherry, a perpetual guest, is Uncle George's prize opponent in argument. She quotes Scripture in her bass voice with venomous effect; nags him for a sot and schemes against him about his daughter's marriage. Parson Bates, a hard-drinking, ruddy giant who mispronounces "sacrilegious," is a third party to their wrangles...
...United States. The latter two countries have, without a doubt, given a shining example of good neighborliness to the world. Border relations have been remarkably free from petty bickerings; Canadians and the citizens of this country have been tactfully respectful of each others wishes. Therefore when a guest comes into one country--as Lord Darling, noted English justice, came into Canada and makes allusions not quite flattering to the other, he raises no antipathy except toward himself...
...Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, will be the guest of honor at a reception which the St. Paul's Society is giving tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House, and will be introduced by Bishop William Lawrence '71. He will preach at the morning service in Appleton Chapel Sunday morning, and conduct the daily service there the following morning...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...