Word: charleye
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...live. She had been Marchand's model for Indian pictures for the museum. He had seduced her, continued his relations with her. She loved him. She had told Nancy Bowen on the reservation that Mrs. Marchand was a witch, that she was responsible for the death of Charley ("Sassafras") Bowen, Nancy's husband. Nancy Bowen went to the Marchand house, committed the crime which Lila Jimerson thought would give her Artist Marchand for her husband...
...production, and along with a summary printed on the program, will aid the audience in following the action. The comedy as produced in Latin is described by the production committee as "nothing for an audience to shy at, but an uproarious, somewhat immoral affair, with points of resemblance to 'Charley's Aunt' and 'Little Accident', and marked superiority over 'A Comedy of Errors', which Shakespeare probably based upon...
...brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan...
Author Tomlinson's narrative of the fighting in France is bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...
...Booth had a bad charley horse and could not do himself full justice. I was a bit surprised that the Yale coaches sent him in when they did, inasmuch as McLennan seemed to be getting good work out of the team."-- Lothrop Withington '11, former Harvard captain...