Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress is the eternal Woman, the eternal Eve, pleading for her misunderstood sex, or rather analyzing it with prenatural cleverness and a certain poetry, for the benefit...
Though, of course, when the moment comes, we will learn from Berlin that we have been waiting merely to prepare our wild hordes of negroes, Indians, lynchers and strike-breakers. S. FOSTER DAMON...
...strike out without map or chart
...Strike out for a goal that...
...exceptions the Eastern football elevens are showing results of weeks of strenuous coaching by playing to form as the apex of the season approaches. Most of the teams showed a marked improvement over their playing in the games of a week ago while others seemed to have failed to strike their strides...