Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out The Merchant of Venice and get home a happier, wealthier man, which is what he was when he returned to Manhattan last week from a five-month tour that began in Syracuse and ended, via San Francisco, in Newark...
...accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while...
...Carlo. Her real name was Emelie Charlotte ("Lillie") Le Breton. She was born in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, the daughter of the very Reverend Dean of the Isle. She had six brothers. To the island, in a tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There, in her 20's, she neglected Husband Langtry for social acclaim climaxed by the openly effusive attentions of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales...
...funny when Hamlet and Ophelia, from a rival puppet show, visit the harlequinade. Ophelia's rue was never worn with such a glorious difference as by Marion Evensen. Hamlet, played by Richard Nicholls, dies with Pierrot's rapier through his heart and on his lips a quotation from "The Merchant of Venice...
Last August the Shipping Board put on the auction block its two best Atlantic properties-the U. S. Lines and the American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...