Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society plans to make three productions of one act plays. The major productions will be presentations of "Beyond The Horizon" by Eugene O'Neil, "Land's End", by F. L. Lucas, and "Days To Come," by Lilian Hellman. Membership is open to students...
Under the Railway Labor Act the appointment of a fact-finding commission will postpone a strike and maintain existing wage levels for sixty days pending recommendations...
Dealing with the story of early New Amsterdam life as seen through the eyes of Washington Irving, "Knickerbocker Holiday" is delightful only so long as the author contents himself with a certain ingratiating naivete; unfortunately Mr. Anderson was not content to leave the pleasant subtlety of his first act as the underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious...
...came with dollars from Denver or Minneapolis the Red Cross yesterday offered a bargain. For ten dollars it will not give them a pair of imported trousers, but to another American citizen, destitute through no fault of his own, it will give food, shelter, security and rehabilitation. An Act of God has placed 50,000 people in need of this aid, and it will be given. Harvard will help...
...garishly-lighted station-master's room in Albany, whence a bus had finally churned its way. Amid the bedlam of ringing bells and frantically shouting railroaders, the young assistant parried the thrusts of angry passengers. "But it's an Act of God. Yes, we're sorry you were stalled thirty hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner...