Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is Barrie leaping the barriers of restraint. The play brims with mocking, alert humor, almost Gilbertian in the intent to set the world right by standing it on its head. It is filled with nimble characterization, satirizing everything boldly, from headwaiters to financial heirarchs. But it is a question whether the tired business man will quite enjoy being banged over the head so liberally...
...received its due attention. Mr. Ernest Brennecke, in the March issue of the Century Magazine not only traces the development of the comic sheet--beginning arbitrarily, as he says, with the medieval "Dance of Death" pictures but he carefuly analyzes the modern "funnies" with respect to their philosophy, intent, method and so on, in a most illuminating discussion...
...Until then she had merely tolerated his attentions, which included three carloads of roses, one large display of fireworks for her birthday party, season tickets for her guests to baseball and the opera. It's a small town where they probably don't have opera, but the intent is good. The boss is determined to win her away from a rotter, and does, though the wisdom of the exchange is doubtful. Dustin Farnum is the boss with the golden heart and leather neck...
...Show-Off. The glib title character is known to all of us, is part of most of us. So intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...
Only members of his family, physicians and two nurses saw him-so intent was he that the news of his condition should not alarm the country. Even his valet, who shaved him, was not allowed to come to him, and he grew whiskers, for the first time since the days when, as a student at Johns Hopkins, he had cultivated sideburns. He had a phonograph brought to his bedside to minister to his undiminished love of music. Official papers were brought to him, and he signed them with effort, as best he could. After many months he was again able...