Word: vane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley "Outward Bound" by Sutton Vane, on Monday...
...Clive, as Jefferson, is of, course, very funny, and Charles Vane, as Mosscrop, contributed a genuine bit of acting. But the play was not redeemed by anyone. It is a pity that Inventor Mallinson could not have perfected a few ingenious devices for the plot as well as for the cotton mills about which it centers
...difficulties encountered by a woman in selecting one husband from two suitors. Somebody thereupon dies; and the story moves over into "another world." From this point forward, matters improve; and the improvement is in no small part due to ideas originally sketched to the world at large by Sutton Vane in Outward Bound...
...older generation, will enthusiastically agree. In fact a majority of the presidential observations might almost be termed flowery. From the unbroken string of epithets and abuse which was fashionably applied to the youth of the land five years ago in the moral depression following the war, the weather vane of opinion has swung around to a point which almost indicates approaching tirades against the old for not keeping face with the spiritual idealism of the young...
...would seem, the strongest possible argument for the widest dissemination of those generalities which approach truth from both sides. The impact may bring war, as it did. When it took place near, the altar on the east wall, but it may also produce a Cromwell and a Harry Vane. And, as Carlyle would assert, it is the hero who directs traffic at the corners of the world...