Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very well, my dear," said the Lady of Downing Street, "I really cannot guess, but we'll say their names are the same as my husband's and my own, 'Stanley' and 'Lucy...
Those who have seen it say that in New Jersey a miracle has come to pass. In Keansburg is the little Catholic Church of St. Anne's. With its unadorned walls and severe arched windows it resembles a Spanish mission. Two days after Christmas Father Thomas Kearney was roused from his early morning slumber by a wild-eyed townsman who talked of visions. Together they went and stood before the church. On the door shimmered a soft image. A tender, shadowy face, slender hands and billowy robes were suggested in mottled luminescence. At dawn it disappeared. Thereafter the image...
Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, anxious to improve his golf, engaged as private tutor Leo Diegel, famed professional, paying him some say $12,000 for six weeks...
...being approved by the college authorities. To state the case coldly, if impropriety can be charged against a dance held in Memorial Hall, it is doubtful if a Boston hotel or nightclub locale would enhance its prestige. This is only one reason for abolishing a dance which to say the least, has lost its cohesion and the respect even of its devotees...
Along with its faults, however, the "romance"--one hesitates to say operetta--has certain strong points. The voices of the main characters are with out exception remarkably good, and while the acting and directing leave much to be desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a pleasure to watch--particularly, we thought, Miss Brinkley in the part of Delphine. And then of course De Wolfe Hopper is in the cast. But on the whole "White Lilacs" is neither fish, flesh nor fowl nor, as the name might imply good, erotic, red herring...