Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compound is this latest Shaw play which the Theatre Guild brought out last week in the most gorgeous of red, gray and gold bindings. Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist. Some of them are born of Shaw's inevitable penchant for controversial conversation. Christianity is alternately belabored and immortalized. History is consistently in caricature. These moods and many more are bundled into three full hours of changing action. Viewed as a whole, the play tantalizes. It is a stimulant and a drug mixed in the same crock...
...whole of Egypt was stirred by reports, originating in the Italian press, that the British Government had practically decided to depose King Fuad and replace him with ex-Khedive Abbas Hilmy, who was deposed in 1914 owing to his penchant for the Central Powers. Further investigation of the source of the news revealed the fact that the deposed Khedive, now living in Geneva, Switzerland, had invented it and himself sent it to an Italian press agency...
...Graduate School of Business Administration has recently acquired a collection of records of the Boston Stock Exchange of considerable importance to students of New England economic history. Mr. Joseph C. Martin, for many years a successful stock broker with offices at No. 8 State Street, possessed a fortunate penchant for recording the current history of his business. It is his collection of documents and record which has now come into the hands of the Harvard Business School...
...reason of its very restraint. Mark Kent made a ruthless and unscrupulous financier, yet with an almost superstitious reverence for the letter of the law. Walter Gilbert's lawbreaker was more than characteristically good; and, playing with unusual reserve, Miss Roach, as the banker's daughter with a penchant for reform, had well-deserved success. And Evata Nudsen made a really charming Gold-digger, perhaps over vociferous at times, perhaps too frequent and vehement in her assertions that she was a "good girl", for that is one of those things that should need no assertion--but that is the fault...
...dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement (of which, strange to say, he is really guilty); with them comes a third pal, the unknown and unknowing Spoofy, a victim of gas aphasia with a penchant for "lifting". From this combination, aided by convenient coincidences, innumerable droll situations arise, genuinely comic, of the type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned his laughs...