Word: lenihan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Lenihan said she did not want to appear "sentimental" about fresh air and a baby, but stood on her renter's rights. The baby, not her child, is the son of her second cousin...
...Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...
...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
...grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful to her father's revolutionary gas-buggy, loves and will always love Archie, the Quixotic, uniformed champion of the horse. Of course, when Mary shoots Josie, the last horse, there is nothing more for Archie to be loyal to, so he turns with a sigh to the taxicab Mary...
...vigorous captain of the squadron. The second act of the play brings the drama of war on the lines into intense, if slightly conventional, relief. The locale of the other acts is on Long Island. College men bandy injudiciously selected slang and punch each other to display affection. Winifred Lenihan gave her usual flawless performance as the heroine, while lesser flights of excellence are provided by Humphrey Bogart and Mary Philips...