Word: harking
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...great difference, sometimes the only one, between a stock company and a company playing but one 'play, is that in the former the spectator unconsciously is apt to hark back to the play of a week ago while witnessing the current spectacle. Unless the repertory actor succeeds in changing his dress, his speech, and his mannerisms most completely with each change of program, the audience is apt to see two plays at once, one with its eyes, the other with its subconscious mind...
...arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world. But the burghers of Park Avenue, dreaming of a thousand empty bottles clanked against each other by a fiend's pitchfork, pulled the sheets up over their heads...
...happened that recently when he set out to write his 63rd play, he decided to hark back to his youthful scene and write a play about political life in Washington, the leading character of which is a Senator. Perhaps it was to realize a youthful ambition that he himself decided to go back on the stage to play the part of the Senator...
...Hark! the Herald angels sing Beecham's Pills are just the thing. Peace on earth and mercy mild, Two for a man and one for a child...
...some of the educational policies and conceptions they might expect from Editor Frank, Wisconsin had but to hark back to a speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...