Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands. Thus Critic Littell's victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself...
...fascination, mumbling prayers that the engulfing flood would spend itself before it reached their homes. Hot ashes filled the air for miles around. A wall of steaming, writhing lava rolled fearfully along the Valley of Hell, smashing fences and houses before it, burying vineyards forever under a smoking, sluggish mass...
...other screaming protestants, who would not leave their vineyards. A woman whose father had been hurt in the 1906 eruption refused to flee because a passage in his will forbade it. Stubbornly, like angry rioters retreating from a row of bayonets, they backed through the village, the bubbling, smoking mass ever but a few yards away. Imperceptibly, it slowed down. The villagers watched fearfully. It stopped. They fell to their knees, crying thanksgiving to Heaven...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...
Tufts College (Medford, Mass...