Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological and ethical interest. He intensified the loneliness of the here by making Lemnos a deserted island, where Philoctetes lived in hardship, a prey alike to paroxysms of intense physical pain from the noisome wound...
...plot is simply the story of the production of a musical comedy. Warner Baxter plays the imperious theatrical producer with a fiery zest which again prompts the Playgoer to express the hope that some day, somehow, by accident perhaps, Warner Brothers will give him a real part. Ruby Keeler is the "green kid out of the chorus" who is selected to play the lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever...
...compiling these journals Mr. de Forest has brought forth one of the few books of actual facts on the taking of Louisburg that has ever been printed. It has no embellishments to put it in the class of a popular history, it contains no plot, but it gives to those interested in this aspect of colonial history an authentic, fascinating, and original chronicle...
...General Director of Austria's Federal Railways; Italy's alliance with Hungary would be more effective; Hungary would soon have 50,000 rifles; Austrian railroads would be embarked on a profitable if illegal business; France and Britain would continue to believe that they had nipped an international plot...
...sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic ability is shown. The actors have little individuality. But the picture is essentially warm, mellow, and human. And it has a certain amount...