Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth-shaven, rather tall, middleaged. His chief works of fiction are embodied in the ponderous Forsyte Saga, a series of novels, beginning with The Man of Property-published 1906 -dealing with the lives and problems of a typical British family. Among his most talked of plays are The Silver Box, Strife, Justice, The Pigeon, The Skin Game, Loyalties...
...serenade, she swished her silken panniers, as did the belles of Bath, treading in the formal maze of a minuet, all the pride and fashion of the 18th Century caught in pattern of her narrow slippers. She danced a "Hurdy-Gurdy" dance like a marionette of ivory pulled on silver wires, to an imaginary music-box that slowly wound down and down. In gold boots and scarlet gown, she glided through an adagio with her big partner, Vladimiroff, to music by Glazunov. Again with Vladimiroff, she did her famed Caucasian Dances, a slinky lady then, wild and jimp with shiny...
...next, a number from Dinorah, came more welcomely; it had a thinner flavor. The coldness of her music increased; the warmth of the audience increased commensurably. She sang Bishop's Pretty Mocking Bird, the Polonaise from Mignon. Then the Mad Scene from Luna-flight upon flight of crazy silver bells pealing in a ruined steeple rimed with frost. That cold, brilliant audience rose to her; they clapped and clapped again; they cheered her until her car (which even the gallant 50 could scarce have budged) took her away. She had given them what they wanted, a flawless technical performance...
...Progressives tended to take this announcement ill, their tempers probably did not improve at the early returns from the polls. But no matter how black things may turn out, a silver lining shines through their dark cloud. The report of Professor Henry T. Moore of Dartmouth indicates that they are the most intelligent group represented among the political divisions at Harvard, at least by the criterion of the Rank List...
...gave to the part of the shallow, feline wife an acrid brilliance that justified in part the so-called entertainment. A most doggedly unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly alluring, she made the author's thesis possible if not plausible. When she was on the stage, streaks of gleaming silver showed through the leaden surface of the play. Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Cornell and her finely competent performance provided the only interest to sustain us through a ponderous and uneventful evening." Heywood Broun-"I cannot remember as much as five minutes in the entire evening which were not tiresome...