Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benchley's affidavit formed, with four other affidavits, part of a petition sent last week to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Mr. Vanzetti. Mr. Sacco refused to sign the petition, calling it inconsistent with his anarchistic principles. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
Interest attached to the Derita play, The Last of the Lowries, when, last week, its author, Paul Green, received a 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his longer work, In Abraham's Bosom. But it was to Mr. Sampson by Charles Lee and The Delta Wife by Walter McClellan, to The Immortal Beloved by Martia Leonard, and The Fool's Errand by Eulalie Spence, that prizes of $200 were given for intrinsic dramatic merit...
Senator Beveridge's most representative work was his Life of John Marshall, a valuable historical contribution. At his death he was working on a half-finished life of Abraham Lincoln...
...from the fields of conservatism. On the whole, however, virtue has earned its own reward. Practically the sole divisions of the Pulitzer selections which the average citizen is in any way capable of judging are those of the drama, the novel, and possibly that of the newspaper editorial. In "Abraham's Bosom" the jury has elected a thoughtful and sincere play; in "Early Autumn" a restrained and carefully finished piece of fiction; and in "The Herald Commends", an editorial which was not only worthy in itself but which took a brave and courageous stand on an important topic...
...Field God. Those who expected Paul Green's second play to be like his first this season, In Abraham's Bosom (TIME, Jan. 17), a contemplation of the North Carolina Negro, may have been surprised to find him now gazing with catholic compassion upon the tragedy of a white North Carolina farmer who marries his niece in defiance of rooted superstitions. Stern Jehovah frowns upon the unorthodox union-their offspring is taken in death, the crops fail. A dying baby is God's revenge. In the end love prevails over the code. The angry blast...