Word: stings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Jacks quests ever for idea? but likes best those ideas which sting the emotions and radiate a mystic loveliness...
After 42 years of bitterness and four years of protracted negotiations, the sting has been drawn from the major cause of ill-feeling between Italy and France, by the conclusion of an agreement regarding Tunis...
...farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help or hinder the audience into a feeling that they are being educated instead...
...time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some of the sting out of the current Hearst expose of the narcotic evil. A good antidote and counterblast for the meretricious pity and terror inspired by such dope plays as Morphia and Seventh Heaven...
...insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June-bug to sting the Athenians into action