Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dolly Madison were alive today," said Mrs. Colman, "she would have been classed as a flapper. . . . She was frivolous, used rouge, dipped snuff, and . . . played cards for high stakes. . . . Quite another sort of woman was Martha Washington, a quiet lady, gentle and demure...
Goat Song. The Theatre Guild has also snapped its fingers. In the face of the most unsuccessful season the Guild has had since it became established, a play has been produced which must unquestionably fail. Goat Song is a German importation, its symbolism of the severest sort, abstract and corrosive and yet strangely fascinating...
Miss Winwood plays a widow, and the brothers two young males in love with her. Ralph Morgan is humble, inefficient and attractive, constructed by the playwright to appeal to the mother instinct of the lady. Frank Morgan is the conquering sort. You will have to see for yourself who wins. No doubt you will be entertained in the process. But if taking the children, remember it is French...
Mary Lewis was tired. So was the special audience, many of which, having regarded opera as a rather formidable sort of entertainment, had never ventured in before. Musicians in the orchestra, going home for supper before the evening performance, felt little fatigue, for they had been called upon for a very subdued performance so that the special audience would be sure to hear Mary Lewis...
Fortunately disciplinary measures of this sort are rare, at least in a form so extreme. President Lowell has observed that the prime object of the modern college is to stimulate desire for intellectual attainment. It is coming to be a truism that this stimulation can only be achieved by the instructor who abandons the old-fashioned paraphernalia of discipline and meets the student sympathetically on his own ground...