Word: godding
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...bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than the actors unchanging tragic mask allowed his most deliberate efforts. A little more of lightness, at those points where the author saw their need, might bring this demi-god to our level...
...spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received the laughs they merited. But when at the close of the second act the outraged wife turned on the "other woman" with a dagger, and is only...
...have said in this place before, we are told in the Bible that the Holy Spirit will convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgement, by which is meant one's own sin, and the righteousness and judgment of God; but we are too prone to think of someone else's sin, of one's own righteousness, and of judgement by popular vote...
...Together with all these elements went a strong sentimental attachment of a large part of the peasantry to their "god parent", the King who had gained their love in the Balkan wars, increased by the indignant memory of the fact that justly or unjustly this king had been ousted by the help of foreign forces...
...glowing announcement of General Hindenburg's birthday and an imperial statement of July 31. 1915, in which the Kaiser, commenting on the close of the first year of the war, declares that his conscience is clear and continues in characteristic style: "Full to thanks ought we to say. God was with...