Word: hogarth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon learns for himself. He achieves a tremendous success, Despite the courtly, portentous Earl of Ockleford, whose dignity as leader of the Lords is offended by Andy's failure to consult him about Sam's peerage; despite domineering Tom Hogarth, Minister of Munitions; despite gloomy Hasper Clews of the Exchequer, and bitterly disdainful military at the War office. He really accomplishes very little at his ministry beyond somewhat quelling Anglophobia in the French press, dispelling fear of pacifism at home, and tendering a magnificent banquet to an invasion of officious overseas journalists. But he charms the journalists into...
Been the "first regular he-artist since Hogarth" to join the vice-crusade...
...period of despair, the players are provided with masks, which they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask of Cybel, prostitute and symbol of Earth...
With "The Educational Journey of the Undergraduate through College" as a general topic, the Overseers will consider every phase of what Hogarth would be pleased to call "The Student's Progress", from the first milestone, the entrance examinations, to the last, the divisionals, with sundry discussions on such subjects as "Discipline and Counsel", "Proctors and Social Life", and "The Tutors...
Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...