Word: leavenings
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...tooling that the players seem to enjoy fully as much as the audience. Jessamine Newcombe's admirers came in large numbers to applaud her return to the company in the role of Mrs. Pampinelli. As Mrs. Ritter, the "born actress", May Ediss developed a laugh that was the leaven of the show. Francis Compton was her hyper-critical husband. Elspeth Dudgeon, as Nelly Fell, Philip Tonge, as Mr. Spindler, and Allen Mowbray, Katherine Standing. Victor Tandy, and Richard Whorf divide the honors in the amateur performance...
...well that some clear-sighted patriot has again taken the lead in this matter. Notwithstanding the horrid hideousness of Commissioner Hirshfield's campaign, Professor Muzzey and his unspeakable colleagues have continued to enjoy the respect and esteem of the country at large, which is apparently unaware of the Bolshevist leaven working in its vitals. If Mr. O'Brien had not raised the banner and declared a holy war of purification, anything might have happened...
...should stagger across the threshold of the Near East Orphanage at Alexandropol in the Soviet Republic of Armenia but Big Bill Haywood, Communist exile, wanted by the U. S. as an inmate of Leaven worth. He begged food, clothes, overnight shelter...
...mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science of orthodox apologetics had forsaken its metaphysical subtleties for the less tenuous claim of acting as a social cohesive and a moral leaven...
...individualism has been carried too far and has become not the right to maintain one's own ideas and customs among many but the habit of remaining oblivious to most other points of view and contemptuous of those that are known. The lump has become too great for the leaven...