Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writhed (acting out Aderholt's death). He lost his boutonniere, got another, lost that too. He shouted at the jury: "Men. do your duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday...
...women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes the modern girl. These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children should be the result of love, not love the result of children." Convinced that...
...have to be given to somebody it is pleasant to know that Harvard is so often selected to share in the honor, and there is far deeper satisfaction in knowing that the members of the Law School faculty are taking such a large share in the work of making America safer for Democracy. For after all Democracy in a very real sense rests upon a proper interpretation and codification of its laws, and constant effort is necessary to keep the legal house in order...
...America's tremendous material prosperity will come to nothing if the training of future citizenship is neglected," he continued. "Apply the same scientific intelligence to improvement of human beings that we devote to improving material things, and we need not fear the future...
...former star of "The Green Hat", now appearing at the Wilbur in the stage version of Edith Wharton's "Age of innocence" uses this vehicle as another step toward being claimed one of America's best. As Countess Olenska she takes advantage of every opportunity to display her emotional qualities and gives a delightful performance throughout...