Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be, since there are enough clever situations in the play to sink any ship in spasms of laughter. Situations, however, require extremely clever acting, which mean that they don't require over-acting. Except in two or three cases over-acting was the fly in the ointment of the St. James Company. Had the various parts been played with a little more subtlety and finesse, had there been less self-conscious attempts at loud-mouthed humor, the play would have been immensely better...
...Bonn approved, with minor reservations; said the Plan had removed one or two of the larger flies from the Versailles Treaty ointment. Sir James Arthur Salter, chief of the League's financial section, in his turn likened the Experts' job of work to the bridging of many gulfs. John H. Fahey, a major fixture in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, skimmed over the high points of a world trade revival that he and other business men had envisioned springing all golden from the Experts' foreheads...
However, the Opposition were quick to find a bug in the healing ointment. There were certain modifications. Paragraph 7 stated that membership in the militia would be open to all Italian subjects between the ages of 17 and 50 who have the necessary "physical, moral and political" qualifications. Paragraph 11 stated, in part, that the militia "will be employed for those duties which he [presumably the King] will consider both in the Kingdom of Italy and in the colonies...
...Waste of the ointment...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...