Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
...talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest of us. . . . Let's drink to . . . the black eyes of Julie...
...true and typical Wiener Mädel (Viennese girl), had been chosen "Miss Universe"? winner of the Galveston, Tex., International Beauty Contest. From Schubert to Schnitzler, Austrian composers and writers have insisted that Viennese girls are the world's prettiest. Here were the sober judges of Galveston in obvious agreement...
...beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
There is always a danger that the obvious importance of English literature, like that of American history will induce neglect of writings in other languages, or on other parts of the political world. But nothing is plame than that Englishmen have always been influenced very greatly by Kahan writers, and that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when...