Word: miserable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady in Love. In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney...
...Avare" was written in the 17th Century, and is a satirical character study of a miser as well as a comedy aimed at the foibles of the court. The performance will be given in the original French...
...most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism to the handsomer ducks. High words- rascal, duck-dodger, miser-followed. Rupor struck with a spade, Koman fell down dead. The policemen who came for Rupor found him asleep...
Heroism is a salamander virtue. Sometimes fear wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report...
...Duke, no miser, graciously accepted. Straightway the documents were brought forth, reclassified, found to contain a priceless series of contemporary royal decrees affecting Columbus, as well as a great portion of the correspondence between the great navigator and Queen Isabella...