Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow...
...symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties...
...have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their noses in the way of detecting a mouse...
...Carnegie Foundation's report on "American College Athletics", which became public yesterday, contains illuminating information for those unfamiliar with the college scene, yet for those who have followed the evolution of intercollegiate football into the realm of big business, its findings are far from being startling. The yard-stick of evaluation when applied to the sport from a national aspect measures out a sickening tale, as the fact that a "pure" rating was given only twenty-eight colleges out of a possible one hundred and twelve attests. That this was stressed at the expense of a more vivid picturization...
...writer, however, Cyrano was definitely minor. Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift, Voltaire, Verne. Even Moliere was not above pilfering Cyrano's best comedy-scene. A beam falling from an upper story into the street released Cyrano from a life of wenches, duels, shames, brawls, intoxications, fruitless ambitions, precious vanities - all of which, save the first, he actually blamed on his nose. "Most of our Academicians," opined Napoleon, "are writers whom one admires with a yawn...