Word: ranting
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Fedora. The expertly insulting Alexander Woollcott observed in honor of this production that the "To Rent" sign had been taken off the theatre and "To Rant" substituted. Fedora is a furiously emotional exhibit. It was played by Tilla Durieux (breast beater) ?in German. Just why it was produced nobody has been able to determine...
Thirty-one times, Senators of the United States cast their ballots without a majority of them being able to combine in the choice of one man for an important committee chairmanship. On the thirty-second effort they succeeded. Senator Ellison Du Rant Smith, South Carolina Democrat, was elected to the disputed post (TIME, Dec. 24, 31) of Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...work of Mr. Joy as the Bishop of Chelsea: we hope that his versatility will be given full scope this season. Mr. Clive can always be counted upon and did not fail this time. Miss Doyle handled an "emotional" part with praiseworthy firmness, resisting all temptation to rant. The rest of the cast were equally satisfactory. We hope that "Getting Married" will continue to run for more than a week, for we should like to see it again...
...course it is idle to rant about failures save where they may be redeemed. This apparent failure may be redeemed. Those men, leaders of the community, who have pledged so freely and yet so wisely their wealth to their nation by investing all they could in the liberty bonds, have raised a distinguished example. The less opulent men of New England, noted for their money canniness, may well follow. Surely in no wiser way may they invest their savings. Surely in no safer way may they make good their patriotic promises...
There is no time to argue concerning the defied and immemorial right of men to get drunk when they want. There is no time to rant about the freedom of the individual; nor to sentimentalize poetically upon Dionysus. We are not fighting philosophers, demagogues, or poets. We are fighting a nation which allows no waste...