Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diction. Playing his feminine roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life. His dances with swords and wands possessed an extraordinarily feline continuity of movement. His falsetto was harsh but expressive. Watching his gait, his play with hands and voluminous sleeves, his tender coquetry, you could understand why Chinese poets have written panegyrics about his eye, smile, shoulder, even his waist...
...Lampoon, has a way of building an amusing, readable novel around a fantastic plot. This was true of his "Virgin Queene" of a year or so ago, and even more true of his latest, "Married Money," which focuses Mr. Powel's satire on points near at home and tender, that is to say on Harvard and Boston...
...dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from her father's medicine chest. It is all scrupulously planned to give the realistic, factual impression that such things can be. That is the trouble with...
...steamship crossed the Pacific, Mei Lan-fang's tender, childlike visage belied the mature perplexities that crowded his small head. The difficulties in presenting Chinese drama to an Occidental public are considerable. For Chinese drama is not Classic or Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric?it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds...
...Manhattan, Evardo Banks, Negro, earned a living by suing transportation companies for pretended injuries to his chronically swollen left knee. Apprehended, accused of gaining $8,000 from 16 victims, he stated: "I am like a little fox who eats the tender buds of promise and destroys the beautiful vine of success...