Word: minors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle...
...Cohan first night has often made a noticeable sputter on Broadway. Hence it annoyed the author of Whispering Friends to find that the critics in whom he had put trust had neglected his play and that the minor critics, sent in their stead, had abused it. The annoyance felt by Author Cohan was expressed in a series of confidently derisive advertisements which he caused to be printed in Manhattan newssheets above his own signature...
...associated with the attempts. Now that the immediate end has been accomplished, it seems trivial for the Smithsonian Institute to quibble with one of the inventors who were chiefly responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern industries. It is equally true that there is honor enough for all, and for the institute to be generous...
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor...
...might have happened to anyone. Brambles Bank almost completely blocks the Southampton channel off Cowes. It was only a minor accident and the Leviathan was afloat again in two hours, when the tide rose. But Commodore Cunningham tugged his cap down over the face that has caused him to be called "Handsome Harry," in grim mortification...