Word: insomuch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Richman's comedy is ill-illumined insomuch as it fails to provide the electric brilliance of witty, speeches which must accompany such efforts. Its sophisticated persons light their cigarets with the elan that should precede an epigram; then they blow the smoke out as if they were at home. The company is distinguished: A. E. Matthews, the hero of a thousand stage affairs, is the detective who telephones to the cuckold, assuring him that in a week at latest he will have grounds for a New York State divorce. The cavorting adulteress is Mary Boland...
...Page, which did not thereby lose its position as a headliner. The comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should and does know city rooms such as the one in a corner of which his play begins and ends...
...soundness of the reasoning is not so much to be questioned as the futility of bothering one's self with this subject. Far from subscribing to the doctrine that "the King can do no wrong" it nevertheless seems to be the logical feeling that insomuch as universities and colleges are put in charge of administrators who are given full powers of control it is to be presumed that they will not violate their trust. Critics of administration methods fall to see that men placed in charge of the operation of the universities and running of such institutions and anything they...
...financial conference will be made. But what is paramount is the fact that numerous recommendations for amendments of the covenant will be considered. Most of these have been made by the smaller nations who desire to limit the power of the council and to give more to the assembly. Insomuch as the large nations control the council, they wish to concentrate the power of the League here. Thus a dispute looms up between the assembly and the council, which practically means a fight between the large and the small nations. This, then, is the first great trial. Can the League...