Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of my club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your newsmagazine satisfies a long-felt want. You have the ability to inject a human interest into the dry current event-items. You present the characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax...
...from a loftier standpoint. We can endeavor to rise above our own sentiments, surroundings and purposes until they assume their true proportions in a wider horizon. We can try to think how they would be regarded by a Being infinite in knowledge, in love and in sympathy with all sentient creatures that now are, or hereafter will be, living upon the earth. No doubt we shall still be in error, because we are finite, severely limited in mind and heart, but the nearest approach we can make to the pure white light of truth is to raise our thoughts...
...artistic success. SHE HAD TO KNOW-Grace George discovers in a delightfully amusing manner whether or not a woman can be too virtuous or too attractive. Is ZAT So?-A prizefight parable takes place in a Fifth Avenue home. Terribly tough and terribly funny. THE GUARDSMAN-Suave and sentient comedy of home life among the actors played perfectly by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. THE FIREBRAND-Benvenuto Cellini indulges in some medieval bedroom ri- baldries. THE SHOW-OFF-Large talk and loud laughter over the young man who talks much, says little...
ACTOR. There have been those who questioned his competence as an actor. Even the most meticulous of these bounded onto the band wagon after the opening performance. Mr. Cohan gives as shrewd, as amusing, as sentient a performance as any yet revealed this season...
Ruth Shepley, John Halliday, and Allan Dinehart repose with moderate effectiveness on the points of this strange triangle. Vincent Lawrence is the author. The sentient spirit of George M. Cohan jigs invisibly to the cadence of the dialogue...