Word: seeings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult emotional role better than most contemporary stage actresses. Now she is Katherine from head to heels?a stormy, pretty vixen with just a shadow of pout left to remind you that she was once called "America's Sweetheart." Lucky children will be taken by wise parents to see this Taming of the Shrew during Christmas holidays. Best shot: the marriage scene of Katherine in her fine gown and Petruchio who comes late to church, in Fool's motley, eating an apple...
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...American quarterback. Once "All-American" meant the personal opinion of the late great Walter Camp. Now each U. S. newspaper has its Camp, its All-American team. Notre Dame's big schedule of games in many parts of the U. S. gave numerous critics a chance to see the Carideo work. Quarterback Saunders of Southern California caught the third period kick-off and went back 22 yards. Then he signaled the ball to himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick...
...chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud." But when Mud's ear became abscessed. Mr. Coolidge dressed and lanced it tenderly...
Poet Jeffers is more than a pessimist; he is a writer of tragedies. The two long poems in this book, Dear Judas and The Loving Shepherdess, are different statements of the same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says...