Word: queene
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...
...cast of the play is as follows: The King, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 The Queen, Miss Catherine MacLarnie '21 The Princess Nuala, Miss Dorothy Googins '22 The Dall Glic, the Blind Wise Man, Joseph Skinner '24 The Nurse, Miss Mildred Ellis '21 The Prince of the Marshes, J. J. Collier '23 Manus, King of Sorcha, W. B. Leach, Jr. '22 Fintan, the Astrologer, Burke Boyee '22 Taig, Philip Wardner '24 Sibby, Taig's Mother, Miss Elizabeth Gatlin '23 Gatekeeper, F. C. d'Elseaux Une Two Aunts of the Prince of the Marshes, Miss Eleanor McCormack '21 Miss Marjorie Toland...
...America, having received its first production at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, with Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. The following undergraduates of the University and of Radcliffe College will create the characters of the cast in this country: The King, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 The Queen, Miss K. McLarnie The Princesse Nuala, Miss D. Googins The Nurse, Miss M. Ellis The Prince of the Marshes J. J. Collier '23 Manus, King of Sorcha, W. B. Leach '22 Fintan, the Astrologer, B. Boyce '22 Taig, P. Wardner '24 Sibby, Taig's Mother, Miss Gatlin Gatekeeper...
...writers; the philosophic acceptance of a First Cause as inconscient as the telephone, and the strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...days ago somebody prepared a message for telegraphing to Washington-to which President Lowell's signature was obtained-beginning: "In eighteen sixty-one, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over the Trent affair." In the Herald, through a typographical error, the word "one" came out "our", so that it read: "In eighteen sixty our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln," etc. But how any person of ordinary intelligence could suppose that the writer of any such message would put the possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding...