Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murders we have had until the very edgings of the pages turned red. Naturally, the concerse of the proposition should be true. Mr. Hudson has been the first to make it so. Certain bright gardens cry for nothing at all. To be sure, "Abbe Pierre" has a binding thread the romance of David Ware, an American professor "from the department of Ohio", and Germaine Sance, a daughter of Gascony. Yet that is not "Abbe Pierre". For "Abbe Pierre" is nothing more nor less than Mr. Hudson, in priestly disguise, enjoying the gentle beauties of Gascony...
...example, Monsieur Brisson, the famous dramatic aritic, said: "Beranger' is neither comedy nor tragedy. It is poetry--grace. An indefinable charm runs through these scattered scenes, bound together by a single thread...
History, however, is not the primary object of the book, which has all the earmarks of the common type of best-seller. In many ways, it would have been better if it had been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause...
...evening, achieves a smooth and rapid plot-development, together with a sustained high standard of acting rarely seen in this drama. An unusually capable and well-balanced cast assists materially in avoiding the too common effect of a series of inspired monologues by Hamlet, strung on a slender thread of mediocre art. The resulting impression is far better entertainment, and affords a truer impression of the tragedy as it was written to be played...
...best a melancholy task to thread the mazes of Paris in the winter and spring of 1919. Let it be said to Mr. Lansing's credit that he has done it with a less degree of harshness toward the unfortunate American personality involved, and with a more subdued sense of the pent-up wrongs of the Conference than either Keynes or Dillon. Only upon the question of the secret diplomacy of the "big Four" and the Shantung settlement does he exhibit in his memoranda the inflamed state of mind that burned beneath his constant dignity and forbearance. For Mr. Lansing...