Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors: Shaw, Galsworthy, Robinson, Barrie, Moore, Cabell, etc. In selecting these, it is more important to have the particular title he himself prefers rather than the most popular book of an author. First editions of these authors are still obtainable at fairly moderate prices. Hardy, Conrad, and Anatol France, although no longer alive, surely belong with the above-mentioned group, and their work should be represented...
...modern English presses, the most sought-for are the books of the Nonesuch Press, the Golden Cockerel and the Cresset Presses must also be mentioned. Cresset has just issued an excellent Pilgrim's Progress, although many will not like it. The book is beautiful, nevertheless,--possibly too traditionally conventional,--but in it the spirit of Bunyan comes back to us again, with his mourning garments and his somber musings embodied in the black binding, the blacker wood-cuts, and the heavy solid page...
...recent significant innovation among the flood of new proposals by President Hoover is his plan, presumably promoted by "Good Will," to reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
...revival at the old Lyric theatre in Hoboken is the first musical play that has appeared in recent times in which the chorus was not clad as if about to step into the shower. It is an actual although astounding fact that tights are being worn in this production, and judging from the box office receipts, this unusual procedure is being received with enthusiasm. Clothed figures dancing on the stage appear so grotesque, so hyper-sophisticated that the novelty of the sight has won the patronage of the entire smart set. It is but a matter of time until Ziegfield...
Approximately 250 applications have been filed and although this is not as great a number as in former years it is satisfactory in view of the fact that there was considerable opposition to the dance...