Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play being farce, Mama cuts capers instead of crying into her pillow, and the capers get more & more farcical as the situations get more & more forced. But the play doesn't end as a farce. It ends as a fairy tale-with Mama, for no possible reason, bagging a great English diplomat...
...comedy, "Jonson's sock." // Penseroso, on the other hand, pictures the thoughtful man, who prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...
...CHINA Tale of a Turncoat...
...Chez Paree, on Chicago's North Side, trim, blonde, blue-eyed Dorothy Laxon, 22, of Minneapolis, told her tale. She took up dancing at 12, got her stage start five years ago with one of Packer George A. Hormel's traveling shows to advertise Hormel meat products. Rather than risk winding up her career as a Spam actress, Dorothy sent her picture to Chez Paree, has been one of 17 girls in the line there for four years. Dorothy's ambition: a chance in a Broadway show...
...that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being a profound work...