Word: mountebanking
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...Mountebank. Andrew Lackaday was a bilingual clown in small-time French Vaudeville. He hoped for higher things and read books on military tactics on the side. The war found him a music hall success?thanks partly to the assistant he had rescued from starvation?a young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel...
...GarQonne, the novel by Victor Margueritte which occasioned his expulsion from the Legion of Honor, is first to be picturized and then dramatized. The alleged indecency of the book is the chief topic of the day in French literary circles. The Mountebank, a dramatization of Locke's novel, is soon to appear in Manhattan, with Norman Trevor in the leading role. If Winter Comes, a dramatization of A. S. M. Hutchinson's recent best seller, is to open on April 2. Cyril Maude, who will be recalled in Grumpy, is to appear' as the much misunderstood Mark...
...subordination of narrative. Until a short time ago, all college papers used to serve a regular repast of warmed over O. Henry, composed, at first largely, and at last entirely, of the condiment of Surprise. It is pleasant to remark that the influence of this absurd literary mountebank has finally waned, if not vanished. The two stories in the present Advocate, which I take as typical, are transitional; the old short-story formula is gone; the new is still in the making. Both pieces of work suffer from this lack of a guiding convention; the fancy is too unrestrained...
...tenth number of the Monthly, which appears today, contains the following: "The Degree with Distinction", by T. F. Jones '06; "The Shadow-Lovers", by C. E. Whitmore '07; "The Virgin's Mountebank", by R. E. Rogers '09; "Marston Moor," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Varium et Mutabile", by S. D. Malcolm '06; "To the Day", by H. Spencer 1G.; "The Nature of Decadence", by H. A. Bellows '06; "Song", by R. E. Rogers '09; "The Silver Grey of Cedar Bluff", by W. H. Gibson '06; "The Meaning", by R. Altrocchi '08; "Sonnet", by C. H. Dickerman '07; Editerials...
...current belief, he said, that in the field of American politics public speaking has been wholly supplanted by the newspapers. It is indeed true that at present the press, especially since it is entirely independent. and to a great extent a substitute for the old time orator and political mountebank, does exert a tremendous influence. Yet the public will always listen to a sincere address, no matter how disliked the speaker may be. conviction of opinion secured Bryan a large following, despite the flaws of his political platform; and sincerity obtained for Roosevelt immediate popularity, notwithstanding the bitter opposition...