Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that Thompson's lowly feathers are plucked from the same bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that "whereas a woman has a whole bagful...
...analyzes his companions, and passes learned professors in the yard, his humility may drive him to his interests already established and further into himself; or on the other hand, his pretended superiority may settle into an insulation against all that is best in Harvard. Don't let it happen...
...Senate where gossip places ex-Presi-dents. The difficulty is that there never is a vacancy at the right time. Some one is up for reelection. Or if a member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like any other new member unfamiliar with Senate rules, without...
...After all, old fellow, they are only boys?anything might happen. And so the first aid stations went...
...collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...