Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somehow these periodic matches for the international heavyweight championship apear to fall outside the confines of true sport. There is in them no trace of spiritual or mental quality. Brute force wins the battle...
...more modern playwright. It is the most genuinely amusing comedy that Henry Arthur Jones ever wrote, and he has had few superiors in that vein. The plot is trifling, the situation almost threadbare; yet there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock device in comedy, and the quarrel between husband and wife over expenses is age-old; but they are handled ingeniously enough here, plus a trivial...
...study European men of letters; thumb their works; admire the artistic legacies of foreign painters and sculptors; trace the campaigns of their foremost military leaders; find our modern life more closely intertwined with that of England, France, and Italy than ever before: yet that last needed touch is denied many of us--that of seeing the contrasting environments in which these men lived and evolved their works...
...trace his efforts on, and see how they turned out, for it is a matter of great interest, now that we are entering upon another one of the world's greatest developments...
...inspiration of Robert Edmond Jones to Professor Baker in America or to Professor Reinhardt in Germany. It may be our ignorance, but we have never heard of sets like those Mr. Jones made for Macbeth being used in the productions of the 47 Workshop. Moreover we fail to trace any signs of the excellent technique of such plays as Mamma's Affair and Common Clay in Eugene O'Neill's most original work. The Emperor Jones. Finally, neither in Moderwell's book nor in Macgowan's do we find reference to the inestimable contributions of Professor Baker to the theatre...