Word: woe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects one of 60 suits. He glances at the New York Times. At 8 he masticates eclectically. After breakfast someone reads a Bible for ten minutes...
...play is thoroughly preposterous, strewn with woe and valor and long-winded speeches about each. It reaches its one dramatic, now highly amusing, climax when a near-hero is tied to the railroad tracks, to be rescued when the heroine smashes her way out of her freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed...
...Harvard CRIMSON there are still innumerable columns devoted to such questions as "Was or was not the House Plan railroaded through the Faculty?" Every professor at Harvard has been harried into hibernation, until he has expressed his opinion on this "greatest change of the century." And woe befall the poor man who hesitates and qualifies...
...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
...ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This is a one-act play with a single character-an embittered wife up to her ears in woe. It is one of Mr. O'Neill's earlier works and has all of his early melancholy weight. The cast, Mary Blair, did very well...