Word: stick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well conceived and executed as it is. "The Show-Off" is noteworthy more as a single character than as a play. Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is untruthful enough, jaunty enough, boastful enough, ignorant enough--"Stick-transit Gloria Monday"--objectionable enough and well-meaning enough to carry any play to distinction. Louis John Bartels makes the most of his opportunities. You remember Percy and Ferdy, the Hallroom Boys. Well, the show-off is both of them and all the rest of their ilk rolled into...
...ordered some of the clerks, "we're from Texas. Stick up your hands...
...usual routine was followed. Gold Stick-in-Waiting performed his miracle of walking backwards into the Throne Room without slipping, tripping or falling. The band played God Save the King and His Majesty gave his customary three nods of gratitude. Americans presented...
...silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost. The fire roared through the church like a dragon...
...personages of the cinema who do not seem to belong. She is not beautiful and certainly not a good actress. Why they placed her in this film translation of Mr. Galsworthy's story remains a mystery. Most of the other characters are miscast-if you like them to stick to the originals. For those who have not read Mr. Galsworthy, and really are not just sure who he is, the picture may serve. Are Parents People? The week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish...