Word: loth
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...difference is intensified by the acting of Miss Yurka. One is loth to blame her for her declamatory style of acting in a play that was written when such acting was in vogue, but at times one thinks the lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
Poet & Painter Cummings collects miniature elephants, inspired by a wedding present from his good friend Critic Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson. He also has a Persian pressagent named Samuel Jacobs who is an authority on metaphysical verse, prepares the typography of the Cummings opera. Pressagent Jacobs is loth to give his full name in Persian, admits that part of it is Samuel Yakob Airvaz Sheraaobode Azerbajode Muradkhan...
...received a petition pleading for disarmament from a delegation of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, headed by Jane Addams of Chicago's charitarian Hull House; received and was photographed with a delegation of the National Council of Catholic Women; agreed to open the loth Olympic Games at Los Angeles, July 30, which he may take in his stride while campaigning in the West for a second term; sent greetings to President Chiang Kaishek of Republican China on the latter's 20th birthday; sat long with his Cabinet discussing Japan's inroads upon Chinese...
...Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans for the loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome to include "the greatest assemblage of armed forces that the Eternal City has seen for two milleniums!" Grandiose, this expansion took place at a session of the Fascist Grand Council in that intoxicating chamber at the Palazzo Yenezia, Grandpa Mussolini...
...themselves of present mystifications and suspense, and relieve me of the embarrassment of unsought affections, by turning to Who's Who, which faithfully and accurately records that I am already provided with an adequate wife, as well as a family and will be 57 years old on the loth of this month...