Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would lash with indignant satire...
...Shulamite" is Deborah Krillet, the young wife of a sternly religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future...
...line-up yesterday was as follows: Harvard. Toronto. Hays, g. g., Lash Phillips, p. i.h., McIntyre Bailey, c.p. o.h., Murton Lehmann, 1d. 1a., Kyle Rice, 2d. 2a., Swain Kibbey, 3d. 3a., Dowling Bennett, c. c., Groves Outerbridge, 3a. 3d., Fraser Adams, 2a. 2d., Coleman Blaxter, 1a. 1d., McKee Smith, o.h. c.p., Francis Goddard, i.h. p., Graham...
...line-up will be as follows: Hays, g. g., Lash Phillips, p. i.h., McIntyre Bailey, c.p. o.h., Murton Lehmann, 1d. 1a., Kyle Rice, 2d. 2a., Swain Kibbey, 3d. 3a., Dowling Bennett, c. c., Groves Outerbridge, 3a. 3d., Fraser Adams 2a. 2d., Coleman Blaxter, 1a. 1d., McKee Smith, o.h. c.p., Frances Goddard, 1d p., Graham
...France has created a M. Bergeret, a professor of history, who possessing a keen power of criticism, can lash unceasingly the failings of the decadent class. In the four comedies, "L'Orme du Mail," "Le Mannequin d'Osier," "L'Anneau d'Amethyste" and "M. Bergeret a Paris," various characters appear, who through their ignorance of the changing conditions are easily made butts for the audience to laugh at. Pity is always indicated, so that the laugh cannot develop into cruelty...