Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely, bored till one day in walked a beautiful Englishwoman, a rich trader's wife. She was in trouble: her husband, who had been away five months, was about to return; she was going to have a baby by another man; she wanted the doctor to perform an illegal operation while there was time. She offered him a fortune to do it. The doctor did not like her manner : she was supercilious, but she fired his blood. He refused the money and made her an uncertain proposal. The lady gave him one look, walked...
Since we have admitted that education does perform a definite function in leading civilization toward a certain fleeing but over-visible horizon, and since a true educational system is a true relationship between teacher and student, it is quite apparent that the college has just as much right to pick its students as to choose its teachers. If Plato had not believed this, we might never have hoard of Aristotle...
...rich brogue, taking his coat half off to fight imaginary enemies, leaping on chairs to deliver political orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...
...between the Justice's bedroom and his office. "Young fellow!" he calls out when there is work to be done. Another name for the secretary is "corporate sole" (a corporation consisting in one person, who in this case has his own reputation to make, his own duties to perform). Before Mrs. Holmes died (in 1929) the Young Fellow was expected to be present in a social capacity for the Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes...
Rose Marie four times (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). Before the Royal Courts last week came the night of Their Majesties annual "command performance" at a music hall. Occasion: charity. (His Majesty's liege subject Charles Spencer Chaplin had refused to perform [TIME, May 18], sent a charitable contribution of $1,000 which he contemptuously called "about as much as I earned in my last two years on the English stage.") Place: the Palladium Music Hall, jammed as usual with men and women who like belly-laughs, smoke and beer. Because this was George V's first public appearance...