Word: strung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
...Orinoco country. He found none, but located a tribe of furtive, stunted "white" Indians, the Shiritanas, who exhibited neither fear nor curiosity at sight of the white men and their aircraft. The Shiritanas favored cocaine as a relish for their diet of plantains. They wore no clothing, carried bows strung with poisoned arrows, moved in and out between the trees "like jaguars," without making a sound or causing a rustle of the leaves...
Starlight. Nothing is more tempting to most actresses than to vibrate in the role of a celebrated actress, perfumed with a past. Nothing is more likely to bark the temperamental shins. Actresses' lives are admittedly artificial. To paint them up additionally with wire-strung acting is to paint the lily. So, when Doris Keane, in Gladys Unger's play, essayed a role faintly redolent of Bernhardt, she invited the lightning...
...undergraduates after a football victory. Even in this country, where we are all, supposedly, one people, it would be impossible to draw a thousand athletes together for competitions without friction of some sort. Is it sensible, then, to expect perfect harmony among the athletes of many nations, all strung up to the tautest pitch of excitement? And is it sensible to regard any personal reaction to that excitement as the expression of the offending athlete's country...
...other balls into the night from the first tee of his Briarcliff Lodge (N. Y.) links. The bystanders were illuminating engineers having a convention, and in their honor, by their ingenuity, the first tee, fairway and green were flooded with day-like light from huge searchlights, from bulbs strung down the rough; Not every ball reached the green ; only the one reached the hole at one stroke. Many were lost. But all" persons present conceded the possibility of playing "night golf."* Wrote Colyumist Phillips for The Sun: "'Ever play Geranium Hills?' one golfer will ask another...