Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps strictly new, but at all events it displays rather takingly a technique which is new to us. Its dramatic action consists of three long scenes, each timed at 10.50 respectively, so that the catastrophe, as our dear old friends the Greeks will call it, expressed by the scream of a woman and the explosion of a revolver, though occurring thrice, is performed before the spectator only in the final act. Whatever the reader may think of this ingenious dramatic device, it is, at any rate, effectively carried off at the Copley...
...epileptic church which institutes Bible reading marathons . . . churches that kick and scream...
...others scream their Hymns of Hate...
...royal right hand was a heavy whip. With the royal left His Majesty seized the priest by his beard, dragged him from the pulpit, flung him screaming on the flagstones. Lash after lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...
...against imaginary slanderers: "I'd like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around the town!" Equally extravagant are the tales about him. Once he stuck a pin in Frances Starr to get her to scream correctly. Once he took an axe to a set which Ina Claire had criticized. Once in Washington, he heard an audience wildly applauding at one of his shows, was bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity...