Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close the account, he had learned the trade or art or craft of bringing plays to pass, or, in other words, of representing life and thought in action in a mimic world. That is all there is to Shakspere. It is simple enough to tell, but not so easy...
Whether or not convicts in the death-house can be counted on to tell the truth about their past, men who have survived three-score-&-ten are more serious than their juniors on the subject of the future. After that lonely milestone, many an agnostic joins the comforting company of the faithful. But last week stout-hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an eager investigator of spiritualism. Last week he submitted his lifetime...
...those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on their laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar...
...infant Peter and since the management has requested that the child's secret be kept from an eager public it is rather difficult to say much about the plot. Finessing the harrowing details this column will consider its duty done when it announces that the story is long in telling, poorly paced and so skillfully constructed that the climax comes at the end of the first act, thus making the ensuing two acts dependent upon the customary dramatic devices such as inexplicable flashes of lightning and a series of unexpected entrances. The most interesting thing about the play...
...super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote only poetry and poetic novels, his fame was international and his earnings very fair (?6,000 advance royalties on one book). Now & again he made a quick trip back into aristocratic society or home to Sparkenbroke Hall, to tell his still-hopeful wife politely that he no longer loved her, to sniff the fragrance of his native woodland and brood awhile in the interior of his family vault...