Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That a play can be as great and yet as revolting as "The Little Foxes" is to the credit of Miss Lillian Hellman and a cast which wrung the last ounce of conviction from her lines. It is a bitter and disillusioning play with hardly a note of hope at the end. But it is a play whose construction is hard and compact, whose story never wanders, whose characters are so chiselled that they hurt the conscience. Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle and the rest are masters of every line and motion their parts could not be conceived...
...time Ogden wrung his way free of this world, he felt he owed no one either gratitude or affection. "I always had given far more than I had received; if there was any debt, it was due to me." The morning he left home, forever, nobody was awake. He did not bother to wake them...