Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other citizens present remained serious. Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, considered the report with the cold eye of a printer who knows a good deal about statistics and announced with Irish candor his belief that Chicago crime had not been materially stamped out. Mr. Donnelley said: "I know from secret sources that criminals in Chicago are watching this meeting and wondering whether this is the beginning of a rising of citizens. If it ends in talk, praising this person and that person, saying we are better than we are, we will be missing the greatest opportunity...
...petty successes of the accused. Said he: "The word spy has been used time after time in this case. The word seems misapplied when used concerning either of you. A spy is very often a brave man who, for the sake of his country, encounters a very serious personal risk, but in these matters you have been doing nothing for your country...
...Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...
...SERIOUS...
Other well regarded serious productions: ESCAPE; THE IRISH PLAYERS; Civic REPERTORY THEATRE; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM...