Word: sputters
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...Cohan first night has often made a noticeable sputter on Broadway. Hence it annoyed the author of Whispering Friends to find that the critics in whom he had put trust had neglected his play and that the minor critics, sent in their stead, had abused it. The annoyance felt by Author Cohan was expressed in a series of confidently derisive advertisements which he caused to be printed in Manhattan newssheets above his own signature...
...fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works it resembled in certain details. In 1891, before literary England had properly heard of George Bernard Shaw, before Oscar Wilde was a bad name, before ten final absurd years had burned up in a bright sputter for the end of a smoldering century, Thomas Hardy had written Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the most famous of all his fine, austere, tempestuous novels. Four years later he had written Jude the Obscure, the saddest, the last...
...Doctor's Dilemma. The commendable industry of retrieving Bernard Shaw's plays proceeds pungently at the Theatre Guild. Not for a dozen years has Manhattan heard Shavian firecrackers go off around the ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy immaculately acted, it will...
...like a display of fireworks, intended only for the spectators' diversion. The bright gyrations do not come under the laws of literary astronomy; she will light the rockets and the roman candles when she chooses. The reader may watch, ask no questions, be amused at the whiz, bang, sputter...
...excited gendarme wrenched a Parisian telephone instrument off its hook. "Fleurns, vingt-huit, trente!" he cried?the number of the private residence of Marshal Foch. Soon the gendarme commenced to sputter with vigor and at length...