Category: Humour
More criticisms--My “interference” with the Heavenly Twins--Suggested operations against Venus--My memoranda on Venus and Jupiter--Detailed proposals--Our new super-planetary battering-ram--Lord Krusher baffled--Correspondence between us--Lord Krusher’s objections--My reply--H...
More criticisms--My “interference” with the Heavenly Twins--Suggested operations against Venus--My memoranda on Venus and Jupiter--Detailed proposals--Our new super-planetary ba...
2. ACT IDIGGERS (_adding up as he goes along_): And three and sixpence is four pound two and a penny ’a’penny, and five shillin’ is four seven one a half; and there’s that cheque from M...
3. ACT IITHE JUDGE: Yes, yes, I know, Mr. Whassit. Your conduct of the case has been very proper; and, of course, if you wish to proceed, I shall say no more. But you’ve not traversed a...
4. ACT IIISCENE: _A prison. Agatha in her cell. The doors are flung open and the visiting justices troop in, accompanied by the Governor of the prison, the doctor, the chaplain, warders,...
5. ACT IVHEAVYWEIGHT (_tenderly_): My dear. You’re worn out, thin, hungry. Wait. We’ll buy some food and wine and take you back. Come, Diggers. (_They enter a shop. She leans against a l...
6. SCENE I.--_The President’s Chamber in the White House, Autumn, 1918.WOODROW WILSON, _lean, single-purposed, masterful, is signing State documents with inflexible pen_. JOSEPH TUMULTY, _a chubby little man, is leaning affectionately on the back o...
7. SCENE II.--WILSON’S _house in the Place des Etats Unis, Paris, in theWILSON: Gentlemen, a little merriment would season our labours. (_Polite murmurs._) There was a man, a Confederate soldier, in our civil war, who soliloquised thus on a long har...
8. SCENE III.--_The anteroom of a public hall at Pueblo in the WesternMRS. WILSON: But it grows more urgent. I left the platform to find you. How he’ll finish I don’t know. He was swaying and the utterance seemed more difficult each minute. Nothin...
9. SCENE IV.--_A room in the White House. January 16th, 1920._ WOODROWWILSON: They’re meeting beyond the sea in Paris. The League that received birth in American ideals. And the chair of America is empty, not by the declared wish of the people--I’...
10. SCENE V.--_The Presidential Room at the Capitol, Washington. JustWILSON (_shyly_): You put me in mighty good company. Anyone can be great in great times. The events we’ve been through called for something superhuman. I wish I could have given...
11. ACT ISCENE: _A dingy parlour in a London Suburb. Two men in ill-fitting garments are sitting glumly, in comfortless chairs with shabby and rather soiled covers, on either side of a d...
12. ACT II.HOOKER: I don’t feel equal to tea. (_He goes out unsteadily._ JEMIMA _sits wretchedly by the smouldering hearth. The child cries out in its delirium. The fog steals into the roo...
13. ACT III.BLOGGS (_inadvertently stepping out of the picture_): I tell you I did it to save my little girl. She’s dying. I must have money to save her--to send her abroad. Oh, Amy, Amy, m...
14. SCENE I.--_A hovel by the sea at Ballycottin, near Queenstown. Eamon,in squalid garments and in an appropriate attitude of misery, is crouched over the fire. Seamus Smitha is distilling poteen by the door. Peadar Roabensôn and the Men of Gunn (a...
15. SCENE II.--_A hovel by the sea at Ballyruff. The roar of breakersPEADAR (_roughly_): It’s her he can put from his mind then, for she’s up there on the hillside with Cosgrave and Mulcahy, and James Craig, and they going on together with dancin...
16. SCENE III.--_A hovel by the sea among the Balmy Stones ofSEAN: Musha avick, how many more times will I be telling you in this play that he’s asleep, God help him, the holy man, and maybe dreaming, if he’s able, of the grand goings on...