Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look at that performance would make the shade of the late P. T. Barnum turn green with envy...
Judith had its premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...healthier a person is the easier he is to electrocute. Sick convicts require 2,700 volts for painless death; normal ones need only 2,000 volts. Engineer Ogle would have physicians look more carefully into the electrical condition of human organs in the diagnosis of disease. This, he believes, is a comparatively unexplored field of medicine...
...after the Browning case their public will for a time be immunized against further interest in the psychopathology of an old lecher. But what is the consequence of that boredom and immunity? It means simply Chat in order to maintain their circulation the publishers of the tabloids have to look around for a new case which has seme hitherto unexplored variation of the sexual theme. . . .* This new journalism is like the procurer to an old roue who has daily to tempt him with new excitements...
Horace did not look up. Annoyed, the millionaire raised his voice: "I understand you are lending money to my son ... I wish you to know that if you expect me to be responsible for it you are mistaken. I will not pay one cent...