Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landing field at Palomar. Major Dargue, piloting the New York at the head of the squadron, signaled to break up close formation for landing. Captain Woolsey, in the Detroit in number three position, and the New York, number two, turned out simultaneously, Woolsey to the left, Dargue to the right. The New York* continued as did the St. Louis, slightly higher and to the rear. The Detroit turned upward and away from the New York several hundred feet; then turned back to the right and went into a slight dive...
...that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe her fright by saying, 'My heart came right up in my mouth,' she is really describing the cavortings of her stomach...
...Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...
...nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance to support a clean, wholesome, pure, enjoyable play, or prove that his "girl shows" are the right idea. As a matter of fact, his play is all he says it is, though little more...
...HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight's premiere...