Word: molding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher, a quizzical associate of long standing. He handles play and players in the Tony Sarg manner. The entire cast jerk and jostle through the gleeful evening like life-sized marionettes, with...
...chemist of the future will turn from his humble task of providing the conveniences of life and gain control of life itself. He may mold stature and character as the sculptor molds his clay...
Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...
...dauntless women of America who felt the cruel hand of war are not made of stuff which misguided Communists can mold or impracticable pacifists can band to their dangerous conceptions. I hate war as much as any man alive, but there are things even worse than war, and women know what some of them are even better than the rest...
...beside himself with audacious backward excursions into the lives of people he has known. This he does by the aid of drugs and a corps of skilled, secret investigators. In his sepulchral study, entombed by the inky transcripts of his assistants, he traces bizarre designs through the dead mold of past existence...