Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reply. " But ah doot a've lost ma enthusiasm...
...ve Got to Have Money. Like the mystery plays and the bedroom plays, the business plays seem to have a perpetual field on the American stage. In the present instance the sudden fortune is acquired by promoting brains. It is all rather rapid; familiarly amusing; shrewdly seasoned to the public taste. Robert Ames and Vivian Tobin are thoroughly acceptable in the leading roles. The visitor may also take delight in recognizing in the cast Flora Finch, cinema comedienne with the most angular features that ever cracked a custard...
...aggressive measure against either Japan or the United States. He pointed out that the latter country was strengthening its fortifications outside the zone of non-fortification laid down in the Quadruple Pacific Treaty at Washington. This was immediately greeted by ironical cheers from the Labor benches intermingled with " You've started the race!" " Suicide Club...
...Sometimes I think," Mr. Tilden added, "that you've all forgotten how to laugh in New York!" Perhaps we only snicker and snigger. Who knows? At any rate, whatever may be our pet noise which denotes amusement, we shall probably bring it forth when we encounter Mr. Tilden's Mr. Podd, unless, perhaps, we are members of "the lunatic fringe...
Said he (speaking of the "intentional base on balls "): " I've had an idea about this whole business buzzing around my head for some time, and I wonder if it would work out. . . . Suppose the pitcher passes a man. It is agreed, to begin with, that every player ought to have the same chance at the bat. Why couldn't another man be put on first to run for him while he stays at the plate...