Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead and half alive. In that case I am willing to subscribe to Mr. Heilner's suggestion of holding liquor in the mouth- with amplifications. My suggestion is that the sufferer hold and swallow at least six drinks of liquor; and then look for a convenient place to lie down, when the toothache would be of minor consequence.... DR. MORRIS T. MANN...
...numerous pitfalls in a modern production of such a play have been well avoided in the present instance. The trappings are subdued and beautiful with out being arty. The delivery and stage manner give the sense of being anthentic without being self consciously quaint The ridiculous twists that lie in wait for the archals in our day are reduced to a minimum. There is none of the vulgar and artificial that was found in "The Miracle...
...least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will lie awake worrying, worrying...
...thickly populated square miles. School roofs flew. A home for crippled children and a whole street of modest dwellings were laid open like dolls' houses, the walls being sucked off outwards by the tornadic vacuum. Steeples crashed, autos slid, trees swept by, scantlings whizzed, people who failed to lie prone were knocked so and dragged along...
...terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears. It was a thing that made a little three-year-old girl in Juliette, Ga., lie shaking in bed at night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry...