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...Lackaye had been on the road together in The Circle for the last eight months not without-ahem-some differences of opinion. So " Let's fight it out-10 rounds to a decision " said Mr. Dixey (64) to Mr. Lackaye (61) when the last performance came. But the shade of the Marquis of Queensbury or somebody interrupted the threatened fisticuffs and now Mr. Lackaye says he is just going to keep on ignoring Mr. Dixey. " Or if I don't," said Mr. Lackaye, " It is my right, as the challenged party to choose the weapons and I shall...
...Within its shade we'll live...
Time: Midnight, May 2, 1923. Man with a Green Shade: How far have...
...Louise Seeger, mother of Alan Seeger, the poet, who was killed in the war: "I arrived in America from France where my husband and I have been engaged since the war, planting fruit trees and shade trees for the peasants in memory...
...pressure from within gave us "normalcy", a queer word which turns in on itself twice and comes out with a meaning contained in its first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory may reach untold heights, and so from Senator Heflin comes a whole new phrase, "multifarious digniminity", a true stroke of genius...