Word: ann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy Ann's state of perennial flutter...
Paradise Alley. This new musical comedy deals with a girl who makes an even greater success than did Nancy Ann merely by stepping on a stage and opening her mouth. She leaps full-blown with a golden voice from the slums of New York to a London revue, under the tutelage of a manager who is a very thinly disguised Weber & Fields comedian...
...Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers. How will...
...Robert Bridges, who was born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...
Nowadays, however, the scene has changed. The clipper ships have disappeared and the only sailing craft that have increased in numbers are the fishing boats which are slowly drawing from Cape Ann all the glory that in former years was Gloucester's. Even though the sail has given way to the funnel, however, and cargoes are now coal and lumber instead of silk and spice, Boston's sea commerce is rapidly decreasing; freight differentials and a lack of American vessels, it would seem, are responsible for the removal of many shippers to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, where no such...