Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby...
Opium is the mother of narcotics. Derived from the unripe seed-capsules of a kind of poppy grown in India and China, it slows the heart, contracts the pupils of the eyes, binds the bowels, relieves pain and fills the brain with languor and strange faces. There is opium in paregoric (baby-soother), in Dover's powder (cold remedy), and in many another household drug, drugs that seem kind. Opium gum looks like black paste. Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting...
...injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone who wants to try dope-to watch the slow fire of rot filter through the novice's veins. He keeps the papers his powders come in. When he has no more dope he can lick the grains of dust clinging to the paper. Many Negroes are addicts; they took to it because it once was hard for them...
...Americans-The melting pot comes to a slow boil...
...certainly have conceived it in different terms. No living man has had a larger share than you in shaping my ideals and powers. At the first I saw how significant you were to be for me and--though disliking--I set myself early to study you. My comprehension was slow and resisted. Few members of the Faculty have voted against you more times than I. But sympathy was growing through the years when our radical difference of temper was becoming plain. Smoothly and with no violent change I passed through distrust, tolerance, respect, admiration, liking, into the hearty friendship...