Word: restorationism
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Looking on, Americans felt a division of loyalties. The cry of freedom in Egypt, though exploited by hotheads and irresponsibles, had an ancient appeal; so did the hopeless, helpless stand of the Egyptian troops (see below). Yet the British, too, disliked their unhappy role. Their defense of the Suez Canal...
A Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One...
Senator Paul H. Douglas (D. Ill.) last night offered two cures for prevailing "pressure, influence, and favoritism" in the administrative branch of the federal government: 1) immediate dismissal of public officials for all actions which are, not illegal at least "grossly improper"; and 2) restoration of genuine competition in private...
Lug home the current choices of the Guild (Commended by the press to flourish of trumpets), Or rent a costume piece adroitly filled With goings on of Restoration strumpets- And thus, well read, join in without arrears The literary prattle of her peers.
The play holds up, despite several performers who cannot act in drawing-room comedy, one or two others who cannot act at all. As Constance, Katharine Cornell is engagingly Candida-like, but she substitutes charm for lightness, good nature for irony. Only Veteran Grace George, as Miss Cornell's...