Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sea-green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria...
Among the men there is great deference paid to the orotund school of elocution of which Mr. Jewett is past master Dr. Wangel, the husband of the lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...
...upon Ellida Wangel, the Lady from the Sea, that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that...
...heavily as the end reached. On Monday night she brought the part as near reality as time, practice and personality would permit. A few more performances will see her satisfying those who want a vivid reading of the play. More than a reading of "The Lady from the Sea" cannot be hoped for on the Repertory stage...
...resources and that our weakness in this respect might prove our undoing. The critical state of Cuba led Roosevelt to believe that an explosion in the island might occur at any time, and that the country would do well to have a fleet ready for action in the Caribbean Sea. The promptness with which our fleets swung into action at the declaration of war with Spain and the ease with which they demolished the Spanish Navy adequately demonstrated the wisdom of Roosevelt's policy, and impressed the powers of the world with our strength on the sea...