Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for desiring friendship and understanding between our two countries I have never sought to hide. ... I believe that the peace of the world depends largely upon that understanding...
...neatly upon paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue, Sir Basil Zaharoff left Paris for Monte Carlo...
...rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...
...Taking this interpretive function into account, it follows that the only possible reason for the existence of acting as an art is to make words more beautiful and expressive to the audience than they would appear in reading...
...either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From that point on there is rhyme but no reason to her adventures. The result is a Gilbert-and-Sullivan Freud, a syncopted Alice in Wonderland...