Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus really do shine. In that famous scene once used by Ed Wynne where Etta Banana and Joe Banana split, each to go his way down the slippery path of life, the tragedy would be altogether too near the heart of the city to be called a suburb, were if not for the fact that this hand picked chorus from the far side of the Sahara proved conclusively that when art reaches pedal extremities it is not footless. In fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full...
...crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of Lucifer takes hold. Immediately, the audience is persuaded to see Anne not as a witch but as a woman of more than ordinary emotional capacity. Even the murder of her husband is extenuated by a plausible explanation of heart failure. Hence, confusion. There is a catastrophe, but it is not so much inevitable as erroneous. About to be burned, Miss Brady gave vent to her favorite repertoire of ear splitting, nerve-searing shrieks, seemed on the verge of rabies...
Mozart. What palpitations of the heart are inspired in worldly Pari sian ladies by the virginal naivete of a blooming youth is the theme of Sacha Guitry's† play. Interest is added by making that youth Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom history has already surrounded with romance and pathos...
...temper at Stephen in the Penmarch library right afterwards. The frigid formalities of a "meeting" completed, he drew his pistol and fired. Cordelia, sure in her purpose, was there to knock his arm aside, so Stephen was not hurt, but Preston left Charleston believing in his New England heart that there was blood between him and the Chantrells, his best friends...
...quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly sanative, on "New American Furniture," which faces squarely the dark facts that the Mayflower had room for only a certain number of knickknacks and that imitations have grown more commendable ever...