Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rain" is a play of unusual mechanical workmanship. Its main theme is unquestionably depressing, but it is so thoroughly woven with comedy that the pill is given a most palatable sugarcoating. Mr. Holmes is most delightful as the Falstaffian landlord, Mr. Rogers is as convincingly a drunken sailor as there ever was on or off the stage. But above all, there is Miss Eagels...
...were two* new makes. There were evidences of factory expansion and a renewed emphasis on quality production at the same time. Only one price-cut was made a point of, and that by a firm (Dodge) into whose product there has never gone anything but high-grade material and workmanship. The Chevrolet Co. planned to spend half a million just on speeding up its distribution. Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year...
...discerns how he writhes his swollen eyeballs to watch both his civilian accuser and the police lieutenant, how gaily his hand trembles as the lieutenant bends to record "assault" upon the ledger, how he whips out his pistol and spures the flame, one cannot but admire the felicitous workmanship, polished, final...
...Ellis Island, through honest poverty and ultimate success. Made in America is said to be a kind of reverent memorial by its author (M. H. Gulesian) to his own life and liberty in this the promised land. It is as sincere in purpose as it is unskilled in workmanship...
...SLAVE SHIP- Mary Johnston- Little, Brown ($2.00). One of those slow-moving but inevitable groundswells of approval- the usual reward of sound, unspectacular workmanship- has gathered behind Mary Johnston's sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...