Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Name, please?" whispers the aide, and repeats the answer to the President, who says "Good evening" and gives the guest's hand one firm vibrant grip, with a little final jerk which draws the guest in front of the First Lady almost before he can realize that his moment has come and passed. The First Lady repeats her husband's greeting and offers her hand...
...offices, the connecting link between all administrations since McKinley's is Clerk Rudolph Forster. President Hoover will never have to say "What do I do now?" because Clerk Forster, a slim gentleman with heavy spectacles and a solemn air, will be there at his elbow from the very first moment, anticipating, suggesting, directing, reminding, educating...
...year was proved last week when she sang the rôle again at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Up she came out of the earth in Rheingold, sang her warning to the gods with an untarnished skill and dignity that made her few minutes on stage the outstanding moment of the afternoon. Next day she issued a statement that "after this year it would be time for an old lady to retire." Already she has given a season of Golden Jubilee concerts, two seasons of "farewells." Next year, she says, she will devote to teaching and to aiding World...
Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...
...story, which deals with a kosher lamb in Wall Street, is of little moment. It is transcended by a shrewd and faithful character study. The blundering sciolist who looks over mankind's shoulder in the game of life and seeks to direct the play of each card at last has been caught and held by the theatre's three walls. Even the attempt to make him noble has been renounced. He is revealed ridiculous and poignant...