Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile nurses and others, many partly clothed, fled from the two main exits of the building, screaming and clutching their throats. Firemen and policemen rushed to the scene. For 15 minutes they could not penetrate the fumes without gas masks...
From Forest Hills, Long Island, scene of many a tennis championship, came an unusually polished coterie, the Gardens Players, with Sir James Matthew Barrie's piquant thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine...
...that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified. He returned at last to the scene of his crime. Her presence confronted him, mocked him, awakened him to a course he had not thought of taking?to give himself...
This volume includes Ring Lardner's stories, old and new, testifies to his long-standing importance as a reporter of the American scene. His dramatic personae, ranging from prize-fighter to debutante, cop to jazz-writer, "just folks" to "the best people," offers more complete a panorama than Sinclair Lewis. His argot, quite as accurate as Ernest Hemingway's, is never mannerism...
...perhaps the greatest source of indifference on the Harvard scene is the general and recognized futility of any other attitude toward the existing academic order. Harvard is traditionally and in point of fact the triumphant example of a dominant administration. Nowhere in the world is it possible to hear the word yes so loudly, so frequently or so unctuously pronounced. In University Hall, in the lecture room, in the editorial offices of "The CRIMSON" criticism of university policies is, not only unknown, but would probably create something akin to panic...