Word: allens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Untermeyer, corporation lawyer: "My counsel fees are among the highest in the profession. For $100 no one can hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original...
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Hervey Allen - Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan...
...audiences there are best satisfied when all of their favorites shine. And it has been several weeks since anyone except Clive himself bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their...
This stirring history is republished now as a matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...
Thomas L. Butcher, President of the Kansas State Teachers' College,' offers an interesting if slightly illogical explanation of the present football phenomenon. Commenting on William Allen White's editorial in the Emporia Gazette denouncing the extreme popularity of the sport, President Butcher says that the game is valuable even in its modern overemphasis because it has replaced a greater evil--the practice of hazing. "Football is a blow-off valve for collegiates", says Mr. Butcher. Instead of leading the President's cow to the chapel platform the students now indulge in athletic worship, sometimes to the exclusion of all else...