Word: hell-bent
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Another good chorus girl, hell-bent for Society. It is a gay, lively; and unimportant play, combining some features of "Easy Virtue" and the "Vanities...
...drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
...present. She contributed no theorizing, merely read from her poetical works and acted a play with three characters, by herself. Hatcher Hughes, a Columbia professor whose youthful mien belied his pedagogical calling, conquered a certain diffidence and told how he came to fashion the lives of Kentucky mountaineers into Hell-Bent for Heaven, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose author, Mrs. Margaret Deland, then took...
...this was written by Hatcher Hughes, last year's winner of the Pulitzer play prize with Hell-Bent for Heaven. Mr. Hughes spends vacations among these Southerners. It seemed in this play that he had glorified them just a trifle. Their humor is a bit too sharp, their characters a bit intensified. Yet the novelty, the philosophy and the intelligence of the piece makes it better than most. It is endowed with an uneven performance...
...prize works have revealed. Just as Gray's introduction of nature into English poetry was the prelude to countless rhapsodies on nature by succeeding poets, just as Montesquieu's "Letters Persanes" prefaced many a book both in France and elsewhere in letter form, so it is probable that "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven" and "The Secret at the Crossroads" will open to American literature a new field a field rich in possibilities, and one as yet only touched...