Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a happy-ending epilogue tacked on to a play that should have ended with the deflation of the third act. It is the eccentric cynicism in Molnar that lends zest to the piece; and in this frothy concoction of honey and bitters there should have been no bonbons served at the last...
...Honey-beige trees...
...tasted wormwood oftener than honey. Like many a fellow radical she was born a Russian Jewess, arrived in the U. S. a simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...
...Vagabond, hearkening to the past, set about his brewing. The honey stuck up the kitchen a good deal, and the bruised ginger root gave off an aroma that corroborated the statement of the Latin ponies. And there was another difficulty, the directions said to boil the concoction for a half hour stirring the while. The Vagabond had conjured up lovely visions of leaning over a gurgling caldron, much as Merlin might have done. But as the minutes passed failure dwelt hard upon their tracks. No while arose...
...another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting...