Word: hyacinths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best best-girl was glad. The doings of the local Hyacinth Club contribute juicy bits of satire on small-town "artiness", but for the most part it appears that the indulgent Messrs. Scribner have given light to an unimpressive autobiography...
...Emmet, Miss La Gallienne, Miss Skipworth, and Mr. Owen--were no more impressed with their own importance than were the aristocrats whom they represented. Mr. Rathbone made a personality out of the tutor, where others would have been content to play him only in type. Mr. Hobbes, as Father Hyacinth, put all his lines and business across, and can be criticised only for doing it too thoroughly. The innumerable domestics supplied most of the burlesque and comic elements which should have been omitted...
...find it hard to leave Sancho's healthy philosophy so soon. It is emphasized by the attitude of one Father Hyacinth who represents quite another view. When the plan to murder the Duke, seize his daughter and take his throne is first revealed in the little circle of plotters, one of the less hardened rebels inadvertently exclaims, "May God forgive us," whereupon Father Hyacinth remarks, "Oh, He will--I can arrange that." It is therefore surprising to find Sancho advocating tax reduction, an eight-hour day and the World Court at a time when the priests still thought they constituted...