Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is a play which might better have been deliberately and devilishly unreal. The case of Madeleine Smith, if it could be faithfully transferred to the stage, might provide an exciting study in various violent phases of psychology. But it suggests to the imagination a stained and elegant fiction about a creature of the shade, sinuous and fascinating. Katharine Cornell conveys enough of this quality to indicate what might have been possible. Her high cheek bones are blanched, yellowish, sickly, as she reminds her boyish suitor that she lay with the dancer before killing him. When she tears the telephone...
...athletic world is full of men and women who do not compete for money, who rank as amateurs and are in fact thoroughly professional. Whatever may be the source of their income, their main business in life is to win championships, and it is certainly a snobbish and unreal distinction to say that they are amateurs if they have a private income and professionals if they live directly or indirectly on the profits of the sport...