Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, the acting is better than in the ordinary mystery play. Ben Johnson as the millionaire Stockbridge is excellent, and we regret that his early demise prevented his appearance in the second and third acts. A hard, uncompromising, relentless capitalist, he nevertheless excites the sympathy of the audience, especially when he is sitting around waiting to be murdered. At this juncture the stupidity of the detectives reaches its climax; ordinary common-sense would have saved Stockbridge as eventually it saved the daughter. The daughter, by the way, is well done by Kay Laurell although she is a trifle too cold...
...face of such a situation (which I believe to be fully authenticated) other considerations are insignificant. Yet they should not be passed over. The case for the economic rehabilitation of Germany is at last disclosing itself with relentless logic to the self interest of the Briton. His country, so dependent on foreign trade, cannot afford to see the ring of commercial nations be deprived of one of its most energetic and contributive members with a consequent loss of markets and a general breakdown of trader's confidence. England has repented of the vindictiveness in which she was caught up after...
...himself gazing on a corpse, two people desperate from unhappiness, another a trifle crazy, a fifth? very old. The theatregoer is inclined to wonder if life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross-section of stark bitterness, he is too pessimistic, too penetrating, to be widely popular. Possibly thereby he proves his tragedy is true...
Secretary Hughes first spoke of the waste of time in official circles through unnecessary contrasts and went on to mention the thrist for sensation and relentless need of motion that has permeated the whole country...
...return of business prosperity which vitiated their " industrial misery and slavery " pleas, and split wide open by internal strife, the I. W. W. has suffered a relapse that most experts on labor problems thought to be fatal. The Marine Workers' strike proves that the I. W. W. have relentless vitality of a kind. Like the serpents of mythology you can cut them into little pieces, but all the pieces live...