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  • She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears.

    Main Street 2004

  • Brieux or the craze for Algerian landscapes in France after the acquirement of the colony, are examples.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • I shall always endeavour to follow clever writers like Shaw and Brieux whose plays have, as the former puts it, "a really scientific natural history" for their basis.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • You do not go away from a Brieux play with the feeling that the affair is finished or the problem solved for you by the dramatist ....

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • Mr. Shaw has not yet been able to use the theatre in this way, and still less, Brieux.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • Brieux is for him the greatest French dramatist since Molière; and more important because whilst Molière was content to indict human nature, Brieux devotes his energy to an indictment of society.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • Marivaux, Becque, Brieux at his best, and Maurice Donnay occasionally, there has not been a single writer in the history of the French theatre so inevitably _au courant_ with human nature.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • DAMAGED GOODS: a Novel made from the play by Brieux.

    100% : The Story of a Patriot 1920

  • She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears.

    Main Street 1920

  • Ziegfeld, his naughty enthusiasm for pretty legs, his contumacious scoffing at Brieux, Belasco, Augustus

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

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