Word: malaprop
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...Despite its context, this word was not, as many of Billy Sunday's listeners no doubt imagined, a malaprop description of St. Louis vice. Nor was "bloody" used in its colloquial connotation. The new testament promulgates the theory that one person may atone for the sins of another; even, by great suffering and great holiness, for the sins of many. Monasteries, contrary to common supposition, are founded upon this principle of substitution. Perhaps the most strikingly emotional element of Christianity, it often finds expression in urgent hymns such as "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb...
...sixteen months, from November, 1924, to March, 1926, Mr. Hamilton toured the United States and Canada, lecturing on Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in connection with the sesqui-centennial revival of "The Rivals," with Mrs. Fiske in the role of Mrs. Malaprop. Having long been a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Mr. Hamilton is also secretary of The Players, famous club of actors founded by Edwin Booth, of which the president is Walter Hampden...
...would cast "aspersions" at "Fighting Bob" La Folette's head, to fall into the Idom of the worthy Mrs. Malaprop. But followers of the shock-headed Senator may have seen an occult attempt to derogate when, just before the election, well known newspapers published a statement by a French scientist that great brains are usually small...
Most women can get the last word. Not all can get the correct word. A national crossword puzzle contest is no place for sisters of Mrs. Malaprop. To that notorious assassin of correct speech, however. Mrs. Ruth F. von Phul, Manhattan housewife and onetime Wellesley College student, last week proved herself no relation. At the national women's crossword puzzle championship, held last week in the auditorium of John Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, she was the first of 200 entrants to hand in a complete construction of the crossword puzzle proposed...
...Rivals. Sheridan's star ascends once again in all its blaze of eighteenth century wit and laughter. If any cast can do The Rivals justice, the Equity Players do it?almost. Mary Shaw as Mrs. Malaprop plucks her juicy verbiage with consummate taste. James T. Powers as David corners the greatest single contribution of laughter and applause?enough to make a dozen Broadway successes. But what one actor has a chance to shine pre-eminently in such a congeries of stars: Maclyn Arbuckle, McKay Morris, Francis Wilson, J. M. Kerrigan, John Craig, Violet Heming, Eva Le Galliene, Vivian Tobin...