Word: things
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gave part of his program apropos of the President's message to Congress. He said: "I am made to feel that my California friends have designs on me. Whatever the future may have in store, California, at least, is double-barreled for this Presidential election. Of one thing we are certain, California is going to be more on the map in the future than ever it has been in the past. . . . The President's message is largely a counsel of dormancy. Nowhere is there the stimulating call for progress." His program, as far as outlined in his speech...
...politicians are libeled; many Cabinet Ministers are libeled; and if they took action for the libel every time they were libeled they would be spending most of their time in the witness box instead of attending to their duties. Why, even judges are not immune from this kind of thing...
...beholder can be normally confident that a catastrophic coincidence is about to explode under the plot. In the present case it is a dynamited trestle over which two lovely young women in their nightgowns are fleeing from a forest fire. This forest fire is an excellent example of the thing the movies do exceptionally well. By itself it makes the picture eminently worth while...
...What saves Bojer's novels from being didactic and therefore misleading is his adherence to the great truth that there is no such thing as a science of ethics but that there is such a thing as an art of conduct. You cannot make general rules of conduct, for every case has its not to be duplicated features. Human situations are not like the situations of geometry, infinitely repeatable. But the general 'lie of the land in the case of an author may at least be indicated roughly...
Impending productions in London are: Lord Adrian by Dunsany, Monckton Hoffe's The Lady Cristilinda, The Perfect Fit (adapted from the American A Tailor-Made Alan) and a revival of Paddy the Next Best Thing. During the holidays Gladys Cooper, the most popular actress in England, will play the annual Peter Pan revival. Miss Cooper comes to America in March for production in a few of her most noted London successes...