Word: rung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring up the child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading role, gives, according to the critics, a notable performance. Heywood Broun: "We saw one of the finest performances the American theatre has known in our time." Percy Hammond: "Nice, rough, nursery stuff, calculated to charm the sophisticated drama...
...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance. Cutting-in will be permissible only during the encores. The complete musical program follows...
...with any given "star" (leaving blanks for name and sex). He offers some interesting and constructive suggestions. One of these is that authors for the screen must write better literature,--startling doctrine from a "movie man"! The average literary critic looks upon the scenario writer as on a lower rung in the anthropological ladder and on the actor as a mechanical if "artistic" mimic who follows his director's instructions as far as they are printable. The actor turns on the scenario writer in self-defense, and both combine to denounce the critic...
Four years ago uproar throughout this country announced the end of the great war in Europe. There were parades and services of thanksgiving; bells were rung, stores were closed and everywhere there was general rejoicing over the giant headlines which appeared on extra after extra: "Armistice Signed...
When Hutchinson, the first Harvard man to be chosen governor of the province, took office, bells were rung and the whole Harvard student body assembled in Holden Chapel to celebrate the occasion...