Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan: "In the present instance it is the correspondents who can render aid." Curtain...
Sommelier: "Ah, M'sieu, the cognac Napoleon 1820 is much better than the cognac of any of the Emperor's happier years!" (Curtain...
Correspondents (catching a glimpse of Owen D. Young in the chairman's place): "They've elected Young!" (Correspondents rush out to file cablegrams. On their return a handout is issued, stating that all the delegates made brief perfunctory speeches, and announcing that no minutes of the proceedings were kept. Curtain...
There were three reasons. Each act was clipped short, the curtain falling just before the audience had reached the climax of enjoyment. Second, the music was exuberant, explosive, punctuated by the hearty (not dainty) shrieks of pretty feminine performers. Lastly, there was a transcendent originality. Two years ago, even one year ago, this magic quality lingered on. Last week, however, it was seen to have finally evaporated, a fault all the more glaring because every number in the present program is new, in the sense of not having been shown before...
...Manhattan as the curtain rose on the last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...