Word: morsell
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...progressive alliances, his vote-getting ability in the farm districts, were undeniably the decisive factors which induced his selection. The point against him was the name of Bryan, a very ill-tasting morsel, especially in the East...
...wholesale homicide occurs in a dream. The manufacturer's family have camped on the composer's trail with cannibalistic eyes. They have considered him a plump, promising morsel to be gobbled up in matrimony by Fluffy Daughter. In a drug-inspired vision the composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth...
...most trivial manner. When we leave the theatre after the performance, we do not feel that we have come away with any lasting impressions. Yet this play entertained Broadway for a large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege of the farceur...
...current issue of the Lampoon it is difficult to favor one morsel over another. Great credit must be accorded the artist whose creation decorates the cover. One man at present faces the world, and like all those who face the footlights, he must also face the music. In the Lampoon the strains are gentle and pleasing, without "Life's" harshness; yet they have a penetrating power peculiar to their composers, as in the case of his Excellency with one foot on the rail...
...Half an Hour" drives home a bitter little morsel of truth on the end of a sharp knife in three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets...