Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquisitor heard Brooks deny the accusations and retort: "Do you remember in Shakespeare's King Lear how the illegitimate son stood over the other one and said: 'The wheel has come full turn'? Well, I won't revenge myself. But I'll be proven right. I have been doing God's work for 65 years. All my life has been devoted to other people. Whenever I wanted to do something for myself I had to wait until others were asleep...
...veterans, "Cap" Capasso of the dynamite charge, survivor of the Italian triumvirate, and "Dutch" Lear, who was Fraad's running mate two years ago, will hold down the guard posts ready to be relieved by Payne and Stanhope. Don Emery, who was forced into action last year at the Yale game as a third substitution and never relinquished his hold on the center position since then, will hold down the pivot post...
Second in interest are the quarto volumes of the plays, especially the first quarto of Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), the Whole Contention (spurious), and the so-called quarto of King Lear (1608). These are opened to display the carnation emblem and the typography upon which Professor Pollard of the University of London bases his thesis that the Lear and the Whole Contention together with six other plays similarly marked and printed, and variously dated 1600, 1608, and 1619, were in reality all printed and bound together by Jaggard...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
...will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce Connelly's bust of Cordelia, daughter of Lear. Her costume, contours and hairdress (a loose, high knot) will be preserved but completely lost will be the unrouged freshness, the amazing vitality of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...