Word: tattersal
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There was no comfort for Daniel in Bullockdean with the girl he loved in another man's bed across the street. So he said good-by to his mother, who had never cared much for him, and went to live with her people, the laughing citizens of Sark. One...
Algeria inevitably connotes the Foreign Legion; and a dance hall calls for dancing. Of both, full use is made. Gloria Swanson usually means gowns. No gowns are used. She depends on tatters and her talent as an actress.
But the reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with...
All this is too bad--especially since Shakespeare probably said to himself: "By the jolly Eliza, here is a play, at last, but where can I get an actor? Ah--I must write some directions." And so he told how to trip it on the tongue, and how to avoid...
Complications naturally ensue. Tatters, the King, takes advantage of his newly acquired character of guardian to make violent love to Mirabelle, in spite of his promise to further Robbie's suit in that direction. Robbie, between whom and the Princess there has long been a lover's understanding, can at...