Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus was the stage set last week for a scene rare in Senate annals. Senator Norris would have dropped his resolution if Senator Bingham had consented to do "honestly and manfully" two things: 1) Admit his mistake in hiring Eyanson; 2) Apologize to the Lobby Committee. Senator Bingham, despite the pleading of his friends, refused...
...California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides him. A drop of blood reveals his presence to Rance. Then Minnie and Rance play poker for the life...
...Machines' 'he does succeed in focussing a brilliant spot-light upon many of the deadening influences of the machine upon the American mind, but he is far from successful in proving that the machine and its concimmitants give rise to all the deplorable aspects of the American scene...
...minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type. Her chief weakness seems to be that she is given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself. However, he is stupid about it and repulses her advances. This part of the book is also memorable for a typographer's error that gives us the crisp descriptive sentence: "Her hand sank on his shoulder with a low laugh...
Uneventful except for the usual bridge and poker games, the trip so far has run as smoothly as would be expected with Harvard's far famed management in charge. Only one cloud hangs over the scene, Eddie Farrell, Harvard's veteran track coach and trainer of the football squad, having been forced to stay behind with what looked very much like incipient appendicitis...