Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notwithstanding, there are moments that aren't a bit bad, situations, that, for all their metronome-like precision of planning, get their points over in a routine and unhilarious manner. In fact, the playing is just that--routine and unhilarious. All the actors, with the possible exception of Mr. Mitchell...
So, for that matter is the writing--done at a period when all the important characters had "exits" in the last act, with appropriate pauses for the audience to applaud in, when every situation was suggested, built up, and reached with a mechanical inevitability--the day of the "well-made...
Thus were illustrated on the Senate floor two predominant Dry attitudes toward Prohibition: the Dry who considers it his duty to tell all he sees; the Dry whose social sensibility keeps him silent. Senator Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done...
XII. The last days of the poet. Character and destiny of his work.
Tall, well set up, grave-faced and pleasant of voice, William Philip ("Phil") Simms, able Foreign Editor of the U.S. Scripps-Howard Newspapers, would make an impressive character witness. Last week he was back at his Washington desk from China. Eager to testify that in his opinion all is substantially...