Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchell, one of the most popular actors on the American stage, who is now starring in "The Whole Town's Talking" at the Plymouth Theatre remarked, "the actors whom I know who have gone over to the talkies for short periods have universally disliked the work. There is none of the freedom and spirit of the legitimate stage,--none of the charm. It is the personal contact with the audience that makes the acting profession fascinating...
...American Diplomacy, 1783-1787", Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university, has reached out over 2,000 miles from the Northeast and extended the glad hand of friendship to Texas, the oldest and largest university in the Southwest, and has said with a smile. 'Come let's be friends; come and have a game with us.' This is the first time...
...sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions to a fuller appreciation of its value...
...William Holesworth, who is the author of the "History of English Law" has written an essay on "Blackstone's Treatment of Equity". Blackstone was the first to hold the Vinerian professorship which Holesworth now holds. Famous for his "Commentaries". Blackstone exerted a powerful influence on American law at a time when law books were exceedingly scarce in this country. The "Commentaries" consist chiefly of the material which the author used for his lectures and, similarly. Holesworth's article contains material from these lectures...