Word: uncivil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts-comedy, drama, romance -and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms...
...that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven't any such money . . . there isn't any such money in this business...
Said Mrs. Harper Sheppard, Regent of the Pennsylvania D. A. R.: "How ugly and uncivil! I have never heard of Mr. Hacker...
...flowers. Just when Etta has succeeded in arousing Mr. Leverton's interest (he is a wealthy theatrical man), Stocky barges into the room. Mr. Leverton has interests other than professional, cannot take his eyes off Stocky's luscious shape. Though both girls are then & there employed, there follows an uncivil war between them for Mr. Leverton. Everything seems to be militating against Etta until Mr. Leverton discovers that she understands him. He asks her help in finishing a play. Wedding bells ensue...
...notice in TIME of May 18, a letter by D. A. Hathaway, of Santiago, Chile, regarding the uncivil treatment of Chileans by some traveling Americans...