Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hotbed. It is the conviction of those who write plays for Broadway that Puritanism is not a state of mind but a vice; thus they attack it with knives and reformatory fury, instead of explaining it. Hotbed, like Revolt a week ago. deals with a blue-nosed divine, the Rev. David Rushbrook. The scene of his hypocritical virtuosities is a college this time, for Author Paul Osborn himself has been a pedagogue. An assistant professor seduced the Rev. Rushbrook's daughter, after drinking whiskey...
...Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
...Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...
Sullivan, for all the delirious ridiculousness inherent in his music, had long been chafing at Gilbert's contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom. He had long cherished the ambition to do something more dignified, more pretentious, more "worthy" of his musical ability. Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written?The Mikado! Superbly Sullivan matched improbable for improbable, comic for comic, and suspected miserably that he was belittling...
...girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data on the younger generation full of life, the older generation full of ideas, and the oldest generation full of monkey glands...