Word: smugglerous
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...first setting is a large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...
...equivocal character; one of those nondescript animals of the ocean that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl . . . . somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon . . . this cutpurse of the ocean...
Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...
...more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger--a smuggler he happened to be--who comes to dwell with them should find himself at home in their tiny circle, and that one who had never been beyond the hills and to whom the world beyond the horizon was mystery, should long to be out and away. Miss Wilkins would probably have...
...cast will be : Don Jose, a brigadier, Mr. Thomas Persse; Escamillo, a toreador, Mr. J. K. Murray; II Dancairo, a smuggler, Mr. William Wolff; II Remendado, a smuggler, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Zuniga, a captain, Mr. John Read; Morales, a brigadier, Mr. Albert Regas; Michaela, a peasant girl, Miss Edith Mason; Frasquita, a gipsy friend of Carmen, Miss Bertha Davis; Mercedes, another gipsy friend, Miss Hattie Ladd; Carmen, a cigarette girl, afterward a gipsy, Miss Clara Lane...