Word: raven
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...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
...poet is taken through early life, an early love affair, down to a tavern in the slums where, down and out, he rumbles out a recitation of "The Raven." Earlier in the evening he has had a duet with his lady on the subject of Annabel Lee. When the surprised auditors heard them burst forth with "O my Annabel, O my Annabel Lee," much in the style of a sticky vaudeville ballad, several tore up their programs and stole sobbing from the theatre...
...Great Lakes Naval Training Station (Lake Bluffs, Ill.) were received most clearly by Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin. Beside reports to the U. S. Navy Department and the National Geographic Society from Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin, Chicago operators distinctly heard Song of the Snow Bunting, Song of the Raven, and Song of the Fox rendered by Singers Imyou-Getook, Kangak, Nu-Ka-pingwa and Ah-Kom-oing...
...administration, denouncing the "robber" tariff, of the Republicans. In regard to Senator LaFollette, he took the tack opposite to the Coolidge group, and belittled the third ticket. He aimed at President Coolidge; and President Coolidge sat as immobile as a sphinx, repeating with the persistency of Poe's raven: "Economy and more economy...
...afternoon a raven-haired arrow sped 800 yards to the tape. England's flag went up, the Prince of Wales stood on the track congratulating his future subject-D. G. A. Lowe...