Word: helter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening shadows grow longer The Vagabond heads earlier for the big chair by the fire where mid clouds of smoke his dreams glow like the ruddy embers on the hearth. Quiet dreams they are--peaceful reflections that are needed to absorb a day of helter skelter educational scurrying...
...moments he has dictated "a sort of a kind of an"* autobiography, lavish with anecdotes of "people," ranging from his fishmonger foster-father to William Jennings Bryan, his son's godfather. Written objectively, the effect is as though he were telling of somebody else. Written carelessly in helter-skelter, unkempt style, People might well have been tossed into a dictaphone between tea and dinner...
...short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...ROYAL FAMILY-Smart and human comedy about a great old actress and her helter-skelter descendants (TIME...
...Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their money and who are forced to say farewell to the house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage...