Word: spattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garrick Gaieties. Manhattan's drowsy acceptance of May inactivity in the theatre was disturbed last week when the young persons of the Theatre Guild revealed their second annual spatter of satire called the Garrick Gaieties. Their activities were as ingratiating as ever, but perhaps not so brilliantly supplied with material as last year...
Last but not least, let us spatter a brief word of praise upon F. M. Eaton '27 for his admirable rendering of a very difficult part--General Washington. First and always, he must maintain a dignity which will at no time seem ridiculous, even when he has to conduct a tete a tete with Miss Dashwood. The authors of the show have happily given him every opportunity to do "Washington justice, especially when he recites the Legend of the Durms, a serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton...
Upon investigation it was found that seven-year-old deteriorated War ammunition had been used in the guns. Although they had been properly elevated and fired, the "half dead" propelling charges had carried the bullets just far enough to spatter them down among the officer observers...
...Nothing is so easy in this life as to spatter mud or cavil. There has been a good deal of loose talk on the subject of the Board of Overseers and one constantly has to listen, often with weariness, to counsel of perfection when the annual printed list of suggestions appears, But let me ask again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead...
...While in China I bumped into a war," he told me, "and I wanted to see how it felt to be under fire again. They certainly are stupid fighters : I stood behind a temple wall and let a sharpshooter spatter bullets all over it. He never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved...