Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary theatre. Thus the hero's papa's whiskers are a haughtily braided Turkish towel, the sage councilors' hats, victrola records. The realistic furniture of the stage is transcended by the art of dramatic construction, so nobody is annoyed because the hero appears in a cutaway with only a sash to suggest his outlandish time and environment. The naivetÉ of this Provincetown presentation adds immensely...
Last week it was the man, not the day, that William Allen White, editor, author, sage of Emporia Kan., celebrated before undergraduates of the College of Emporia. Said...
...critic is no longer the white haired sage whose years and experience have fitted him for the task of judging the merit of literary endeavors, but the child of twelve whose rompers take the ink spots as her brilliant pen splashes on its critical way. Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this...
...Dunster House Bookshop is moving on November 1 to the New Sage building, 66 Church St., where it will take quarters for the winter. In the spring the bookstore will return to one of the stores in the new building, where more spacious quarters will permit greatly enlarged stock...
...Sage of Burwash...