Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to be faintly disappointed by Sir Harry's new opus. He has been careless and a mite dull. His people are a rich Australian who marries the Governor's daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their napkins and blew their noses"-and the third consists largely in sudden aimless excursions into geology, botany, anthropology, astronomy...
...parody has broadened out to include American life in general, its favorite prey has remained the theatre. Skits on famous actors and actresses, like the disturbing domestic scene between Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine during the course of a serious drama, take-offs on popular plays, to whit. "They Knew What They Wanted Under the Elms", and more satirizations of similar type continued to draw crowds to the Garrick Theatre and to increase the general interest in the parodied productions...
...entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer. But him I don't know. What does he think I should do-laugh...
...Toes. When Lady, Be Good made its immense success, the producers determined its companion piece should be no whit less entertaining. They engaged the same authors and the brilliant George Gershwin for the tunes. Queenie Smith, Andrew Tombes, Allen Kearns and Harry Watson were collected for the principal parts. Considerable cash and no little taste went into scenery and clothing. The net result is 'excellent, but many feel it just a trifle below the astonishingly high standard of the earlier display...
...America seems not a whit appalled by the apparent futility of her experiment. Perhaps its sequel proves that the great majority of mankind is immune to any extraordinary intellectual growth. Education, beyond its elementary stages, implies a capacity for development which may be non-existent in the majority...