Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they "must appear in short clothes or no engagement." Below a Gospel Guide colu...mn headed, "Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow," was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney's California Concert Hall, patrons "bucked the tiger" under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular "lady" gambler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. A woman in agony of spirit might turn ...her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never have anything to do with the near surviving representatives of anyone whose name appears in the death column of the Times as... having "passed away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die? Basil: I don't know.... Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books? If they don't tell you that, what the hell do they tell you? Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours. I spit on their agony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learn...ed to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy soul and body, when death's agony Besieged around thy noble heart,... Did not with more reluctance part Than I, my dearest Friend, do part from thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »