Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor boating is being hooted at, for lack of realism meets not with the approval of everyone. Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and trustee of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, last week flayed the idea in a letter to the Churchman: "If that [sporting] life is to be symbolized in it [the Cathedral], then the genius of the architect should find some way of connecting it in expression with the sacramental life. The architect's design peculiarly subject...
...which serves to discount the theory that such literary journals as the Saturday Review or the Times Sunday Book Supplement guide the readers of the nation. When "The Women Tempted" has run into numerous editions and has found a place on every virgin's Sex Foot Shelf, the distinguished critics of the country will be forced to realize to their despair that the New York Evening Journal and the Boston Telegram are the true expressions of the nation's taste in light literature...
...Virgin. The strange unplumbed affinity between religious exaltation and sex, which was the motif of Rain, has tempted another playwright. He is Arthur Corning White, who teaches English at Dartmouth, and his play has been trimmed and tuned to the theatre by Louis Bennison, an actor. Between them they have turned out a somewhat self-consciously sensational entertainment which has spots of fiery brilliance...
...chiefly valuable for a scene in which the French Canadian realizes the girl is not God and destroys most of her clothing. Miss Povah is one of the dependable actresses whose presence on the stage prevents any play from being wholly uninteresting. Which, it may be added, The Virgin...
Anon the way of the Spirit seems wondrous sweet to her and she returns to the cathedral, and the Virgin, who has all these years played the part of a model nun, casts off the nun's garments and again becomes a sacred image. As she does so she takes into her arms the child which the nun has brought back, the child which dies as she returns to the way of the spirit...