Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easter is a confused parable about a family whose father was in jail because of the unfortunate results of dipsomania. The same strain of insanity runs in the daughter's blood. In her semi-bemused conversation, the playwright has set the sharpest jewels of his philosophy. Some of the jewels did not twinkle very clearly. Easter is symbolic, Continental, difficult, and not particularly stimulating to the casual U. S. mind. Which may prove to certain erudites that it is a good play...
...Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy, one of the sharpest, funniest comedies that you are likely to witness through the winter...
...suspicion will not down that President Coolidge and not Senator Butler has experienced the greater stroke of fortune in the affair. When Senator Butler was substituted for Senator Lodge, the sharpest thorn in the side of the Administration was replaced by a kindred spirit. Mr. Butler will be Coolidge in the Senate, and Mr. Butler's views will be accepted as those of the President. Senator Butler is inherently not a negative figure, and his added position of spokesman for the Administration should make him a power in the Senate and a power for the support of the President...
...fear that it may not be favored of the average undergraduate, who sad to say, seems to enjoy immensely the type of humor displayed by the average college comic papers. In spite of the fact that the colleges of the country are supposed to be made up of the sharpest-witted and most intelligent men of the younger generation yet for years this same smutty brand of humor has been in vogue in the humorous publications...