Word: playing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Piquant, such "political incompatibility" would plausibly explain why "Nito" prefers to play the Duce alone in Rome, only visiting his wife in Milan or at his farm in Forli twice or thrice a year...
...best described as semiprofessional and last Labor Day threw the doors open for their first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...
Young Alexander. The business of translating ancient idols for modern idlers is not new. John Erskine and Robert Emmet Sherwood have taken the edge off the novelty. It would seem that Hardwick Nevin had moments of realizing all this while he was writing his play about Alexander the Great, for he abandons the modern idiom from time to time in his treatment and launches forth into high-sounding blank verse. The result is confusion. Neither young Alexander nor the audience get anywhere...
...dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry and hysteria of its regular season...
...repeal of the "Meanings" clause of the book censorship code daily nears realization. That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...