Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years later Jeannette, successful, has risen as high in her firm as a woman could. She is getting $50 a week?nearly half as much as her successor would start in at if that successor were a man. She is lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts...
Last week the Boston Opera House disclosed to a vast audience the "Spice of 1922". To this one can apply the question "What's in a Name?" And the answer seems to be "quite a bit". Rather obviously, no title far dissimilar could have been used. The show is nothing but a collection of assorted "spice". If one takes into consideration the varied frames of mind of the audience, which was no doubt divided between the low brow, the high brow and the tired business man, one can come to the conclusion that the performance was appreciated by some...
Humor, conversation, music, songs, and dancing all go towards the seasoning of a show. The "Spice" has plenty of all these ingredients, but some are either tastelessly weak, or bitterly strong. The conversation was clearly weak. Some of the humour left a rather sour taste in the mouths of the more delicate members of the audience. Of the music, songs, costumes and scenery, little can be said more than that they were merely "fair...
...technique, his style, his manner, there is nothing to be said, save that it is like the technique, style, and manner of every scribbler for "woodpulp publications", garnished previously with a touch of sauciness and rather new spice. We say "previously" advisedly; for as has been hinted, his "Tales" fall below even the standard set by "Flappers" et al.; the sauciness has run dry and the spice become flat and tasteless. The "Tales" show a marked weakening. Fitzgerald went up like a rocket; but now that he has reached his apex and is in danger of descending like the stick...
Tickets are on sale at 35 cents spice and may be procured at the Salvation Army Headquarters at 402 Massachusetts avenue, from any member of the Salvation Army, or from Amee Brothers' Bookstore...