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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant Truth whom we have abandoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVING THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES | 11/30/1923 | See Source »

...Maryland 14 27--Princeton 0 217 38 AMHERST 0--Bowdoin 13 0--Union 0 7--Mass. Aggies 3 12--Wesleyan 10 7--Oberlin 14 41--Trinity 12 7--Williams 23 74 75 ARMY 41--Tennessee 0 0--NotreDame 13 28--Auburn 0 73--LebanonVal 0 10--Yale 31 44--Ark. Aggies 0 20--Bethany 6 236 56 BOSTON COL 28--Providence 0 20--Fordham 0 21--Canisius 0 6--Marquette 7 21--Georgetown 0 14--Centenary 0 41--Villanova 0 151 7 BOSTON UNIV 0--Dartmouth 24 3--Brown 20 6--Holy Cross 13 17--Colby 7 0--Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE GREAT FOOTBALL ELEVENS REMAIN UNDEFEATED AS SEASON DRAWS TO CLOSE | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

...came. On twelve days this season the number of people entering Yellowstone National Park exceeded 2,000, although the greatest daily record for 1922 was 1,983. Three parks, Yellowstone (Wyo.), Platt (Okla.), Yosemite (Calif.), had received more than 100,000 visitors by Aug. 15. Hot Springs National Park (Ark.) had 98,580 visitors by the same date. Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.), 83,888. Last year over 1,200,000 people visited 19 parks. This year the number is expected to surpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Lavishers | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Benito's Ark-for keeping d'Annunzio out of mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 30, 1923 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

Mary Lewis, until recently prima donna of the Follies, will take leading roles in the Monte Carlo Opera Company's productions from January to April. Miss Lewis, who is 23, sang in a choir and gave music lessons in Little Rock, Ark., her birthplace, to obtain money to take her to New York. There, in 1920, she entered the chorus of the 'Greenwich Village Follies, was given the prima donna role after three weeks, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies the next two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Jul. 23, 1923 | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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