Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered, with every thread of instrumental color...
Which is not to say that the book is merely sugar-coated history, for it is not. It has little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his adventures in local politics?his love for Winifred Ashe and their runaway marriage?his friendship for the outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?...
...English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama and he has accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian...
...pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through the maze of deviating portrayal...
Giovanni Papini-he looked into his heart and wrote a brilliant his- tory. (See Page 20.) The Saturday Evening Post-clean business. (P. 24.) A royal wedding gown of chiffon moire, silver thread, pearls, tulle and borrowed lace...