Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commedia dell'arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe...
Cash-on-hand is a pretty item on any balance sheet, but if it is not earning a fair return for stockholders they are apt to question the management, hint for a special dividend. Standard Oil of New Jersey announced last week it would employ $30,600,000 of its cash by calling one-quarter of its $120,000,000 bond issue. The bonds for retirement will be drawn by lot, paid off Feb. 1 at 102%. This is the second time the big oil company has used a large amount of cash from earnings to reduce its indebtedness...
...appears here and there. The English student of Greek philosophy is able to begin the "Republic" with a background as much like that of Plato as any modern youth can attain. In Honor Mods and at school he has been saturated in the same poets. He can supply an apt quotation where Plato has not bothered to do so. He becomes intimately acquainted with Greek history and Greek institutions. He is able to deal with Plato as the quintessence of the Greek mind. After he has worked out Socrates' refutations of sophists who are as Greek as himself, the student...
...these antics caused World Court Judge Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime U. S. Secretary of State and onetime "Nervous Nelly," to observe boldly from his fireside in St. Paul, Minn, last week: "The time for secret diplomacy in grave instances of this kind is past! Private conversations are apt to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. No nation has a right to consider itself aggrieved by having its attention called to violations or threatened violations of treaties. War is no longer the private affair of belligerent nations...
There has long been a feeling that the departments of Economics, Government, and History in order to fulfill completely their purpose should offer at least one course in current events and current problems. Empire, decay, and revolution, the clash of arms, the fall of thrones, are apt to assume the color of recollection only, a reminiscent haze of things past, untouched by any parallel with these soberer days. To view the past through the small end of the telescope, through the present, would be a refreshing aid in the drive for historical proportion...