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...dismissed the novels of Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett: "They spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring." Woolf's comment conveys an assuredness (this is trivial, that is transitory) that now seems sadly dated. West's wise record of small acts, daily tasks and obscure manners breathes with new life...
There are 130,000 people land who knows how many dogs) in the Duluth. Minn., Superior, Wise metropolitan area, so there must be at least 130,000 signs...
Bucyrus-Erie, South Milwaukee, Wise...
Kimberly-Clark Corp., Neenah, Wise...
There was something about Eugene O'Neill's dour eminence as the trailblazer of serious American drama that made his critics and colleagues want to crack wise. While he toiled to bring Euripidean depth and grandeur to domestic melodrama, the nimble midgets in attendance played at defacing his stature. Strange Interlude ran for 4 1/2 hours and an impressive 426 performances; road companies packed the provinces for three seasons after its 1928 opening; the play brought O'Neill his third Pulitzer Prize, and sped him on to a Nobel in 1936. And still the jesters japed. Critic Alexander Woollcott, noting...