Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old daughter and a middle-aged don fell in love. Her younger daughter wanted to leave home, go to the U. S. with her rich aunt. Her husband at last, and on his own, landed a promising job. All these things upset Claudia. After pretending to herself that she had carefully considered pro and con, she did her domineering best to put a stop to all of them. And if she had not been a bad driver, and had not been so tired one rainy night, she might have succeeded. It would have seemed blasphemous even to think...
...There Wise Fools" is not a new play--it was presented in Boston and elsewhere a respectable number of years ago--but it still has a gentle comedy and a steady if somewhat pedestrian flow. It tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets...
...mixture of metaphor is intended to indicate that the Guild's most recent offspring is a problem child who shows an upsetting complexity of behavior. Perhaps because he felt that Miss Claire is in danger of becoming stereotyped, Mr. Behrman has apparently sought to make his work more than the simple amusing bubble it ought to be. Instead of concentrating, as is customary, upon Miss Claire's emotional life, he has built a play of many characters and even more numerous problems. He has gathered, into a sunlit Maine summer palace, three generations of the Wyler family with their variegated...
...bitterest clash of the day Warren Williams upset A. Winslow (U.B.C.) when he came from behind by brilliant rallying to win 8-15, 11-15, 18-16, 18-16, 15-12. Francis R. Appleton made sure of the Yardling's victory when he defeated W. Taber by the scores...
...have been in 1935, but today the rising might of Germany is more clearly visible. The European balance of power is being further & further upset, and this is the traditional signal for British policy to shift so as to find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard...