Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greybeards revived the legends of her fiery temperament and explosive tantrums. They recalled how, in 1902, she ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic in proportion, infelicitous in performance. She embarrassed. Her play was a feebly repetitious comedy in which an elderly man monopolizes...
...Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds two feet of water, of varnished and translucent brown?the brown of old sherry." Though we are here reminded that Elder Brother Morley is prouder of his taste...
...Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal party stepped upon the quay, it was seen that...
...lined the decks and guns of the Renown. Shrill boatswains' whistles piped as the ducal party stepped aboard. Then the standard of the Duke of York broke out at the masthead. Thunderous, a salute roared from the battleships Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow and Emperor of India. Humorously pat, the Renown's band blared: "The Girl I Left Behind...
...aware that it being treated to something almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review scenes so excellently staged and so richly coloured that they seem parts of a never ending tapestry. Every gesture made upon the stage, and every inflection, beckons the audiences' interest...