Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nicest of English prelates, Lord William certainly had the nicest white whiskers of any of them. As he cycled at a merry speed round his Devonshire See, his whiskers and Episcopal apron flapped in the wind and anyone could tell a mile off who was coming. Because of his thick whiskers which hid a very jolly face, his clergy nicknamed him "Love in a mist...
...overlooked in the uproar of the somewhat over-punctual celebration of Mr. McNutt's arrival in Washington was his official mission: to tell the President that: 1) Philippine sentiment for immediate independence is declining, 2) that Major General Douglas MacArthur is "doing wonders" with the Philippine Army, and 3) that U. S. residents of the Philippines resent paying income taxes...
...concert will open with a Bach cantata, "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." From beginning to end, the themes in this work are all based on the soprano part in the final calm and triumphant choral. Sections of this soprano melody are developed into full-length choruses that tell of Christ's death and resurrection at the beginning of the cantata, and, in the middle, of the horrible struggle between life and death. The work is essentially dramatic; and Mlle. Boulanger's interpretation, though perhaps a bit too a la francaise, brings out the drama to the full...
...tell that you'd already won to fame...
...Lonsdale is a 57-year-old Englishman who has written 24 plays. But it was not till 1923, with Aren't We All?, that he made a real hit on Broadway. He conceives all his plays as tragedies, writes them all as comedies, because in comedy "you can tell a much deeper story. That's why Shaw wrote comedies...