Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been difficult to purchase for a number of years, and undeservedly so, for we know of no more thrilling episode in the vast litter of stories about the Stock Exchange than the "Pit," Tom Lawson's "Friday the Thirteenth," a sample of "frenzied finance," strung on a thread of romance, runs it a close second, though falling short of real literature...
...title of the play has little to do with anything in the plot; the plot itself has little to do with the play, the sole thread being the theme of identifying a man by a mermaid tattooed on his leg. Although Georgia O'Ramey, of slap-stick comedy fame, is featured in the production, yet the humorous honors are over-whelmingly carried off by Mr. William Kent, who, as Steve the janitor, masquerades triumphantly through the piece as Colonel Hutt. The audience chuckles perforce every time he appears on the stage and is put into roars of laughter during...
...most of all he has given us a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln in the making. The main theme of the volume is the story of the "years of building and sentiment," before Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd, and the significant thread in the whole skein of minor plots is the romance of Abe and Ann Rutledge. This episode Mr. Bacheller makes the turning point in the life of his hero. He makes one of his characters say after Lincoln's last visit to Ann before her death...