Word: merediths
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...lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope. For 20 years Naomi wondered if there had been something in this unfinished poem to bring them together again. Playwright van Druten's answer comes from the mouth of a tuberculous young genius (Burgess Meredith) who visits the Jacklins' home to look at their pictures, rages against the folly of war, is stricken by one of his mysterious headaches. In a trance, he echoes the dying poet's feverish appeal for Naomi's forgiveness, finishes the verse. Mrs. Jacklin realizes that...
...appear as dismal as war. Spectators were most disappointed by the voice-from-beyond scene, a difficult illusion which failed to get across the footlights, through no fault of Miss Cornell and her excellent supporting cast. Though he played his part as the stricken oracle with ingratiating charm, Burgess Meredith could not help tripping over Mr. van Druten's script...
...Indiana, nine days before, Governor McNutt signed the original "anti-heart balm" bill which Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson introduced in the State Legislature last January (TIME, Feb. 18). Only woman member of the legislature, mother of two and daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, she said: "It looks like I've become the standard bearer of a crusade to make the world safe...
...title of the book is taken from a poem by George Meredith in which he says, "We are betrayed by what is false within." The story is a continuation of the life history of Vridar and carries him through his early married days and hectic graduate work. Fisher best describes the internal conflict that beset Vridar when he says, "Two personalities within him--the poet, credulous, self-pitying, and lost to unattainable ideals, and the thinker, ruthless and sardonic--were becoming day by day more irreconcilable; and he was disintegrating in the struggle and knew...
...firmly convinced," firmly declared Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, "that most actions for breach of promise and seduction have extortion as their chief motive. Surely a suit to recover money as damages for the broken romance cannot soothe a woman if love was genuine...