Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bradleys were like bread and butter, so kindly and useful. Giles Bradley, Captain Owen's plain and philosophic younger brother, worshipped the austere Toppie hopelessly. He made Alix feel wonderfully safe. When Alix discovered that Maman had been more to Captain Owen than Toppie had been, and that he had betrayed them both by not telling his family of the Paris visits, life would have been unbearable without Giles' understandstanding. He went with her to France, met Maman, understood her too. He saw how necessary a safe English marriage was for Alix and, with the fidelity...
...judgment that waited on facts. In one of the changes of a generation in the office, when the old heads vanished almost altogether, he caused each of the younger moulders of opinion to be given a beautiful set of gilded scales from Tiffany's-the hint was quite plain...
...having shaken off her long subjection.' "That friends of Ireland through out the world, and particularly in America, may not 'be deceived and may not be tempted to relax their efforts in Ireland's behalf until real freedom is achieved, let us send forth this plain message...
...prevarications. Thereupon he produced a pistol and waved it around for the better part of an act until he had separately threatened everyone in the cast and all but the upper boxes in the audience. Ralph Kellard, as the husband, brought to this part as full an assortment of plain and fancy sound and fury as it is the misfortune of most witnesses to recall. Finally he did not shoot any one at all and took the wife back to their little paradise-on-the-installment-plan, because he could not order ice and milk. She was a good woman...
...Back Slappers' Union is determined that he shall feel at home. Dissension has arisen in their ranks as to what to call him. Originally, he was discovered as Franz; later it became Ferenc, and there is a distinct movement afoot at present to simplify it to just plain Francis. But that is one of those problems that must simply be left to work themselves out in their own way. At any rate he will follow his great successes Liliom, Fashions for Men and The Swan with The Red Mill, in which Belasco will star Lenore Ulric. The Theatre Guild...