Word: wander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Youth" movement, which is widespread in Germany and is extending its influence to the rest of Europe and to America, is a revolt against intellectual complacence, and self-satisfied smugness. It has resulted in Germany in the "Wander-lovers", bands of young people who are walking about seeing their country at first hand, and interesting themselves in everything. In America, its evidences are chiefly oratory, intercollegiate conferences, and the springing up all over the land of student discussion societies and publications devoted to criticism. Apparently the revolution that Sir James Barrie advocated of Youth against its Betters has finally made...
These are the plays which in the light of metropolitan criticism seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's fancy is permitted to wander all over a fantastic globe. Joseph Schildkraut, as the vainglorious Peer, has to pass from youth to age in two moves. ROMEO AND JULIET-Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters put new life into old romance. Juliet's charm captivates not only Romeo but the entire audience. Moscow ART THEATRE-The Moscow players have bred in theatre-goers a fine contempt for barriers of language. The inspired realism of their acting conveys their meaning almost...
...Right.?Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...
...mere lapse of a few milleniums is not enough to relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...
...before the war. Pick up your papers almost any day, and read of the countless thousands subsisting on grass and roots in Russia, and of the famished thousands on the bleak islands of Greece and on the coast of the Aegean. Never were there so many homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless orphans...