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Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these columns before; it was remarked that the organization filled definite and justifiable functions. It does not, though many might aver that it did titillate the undergraduate's fancy for international logrolling, and make a diplomatic expert of him. Coldly scrutinized, it seems with a few notable exceptions to leave him unruffled and even indifferent...
...died last year. He proposed and wrote the first play, The Man of the Forest. In 1911 his Natoma was set to music by Victor Herbert, produced in Philadelphia with Mary Garden and John McCormack.' The best western composers have contributed scores for the Grove plays and Bohemians aver that much beautiful music is thereby lost to the world, as the plays are seldom given public performance...
...wilfully, deliberately and viciously attempted to nullify the operation of the laws for the punishment of crime in the State of Virginia." Cried Representative Smith: "I do not contend that a judge may be impeached for an honest difference of opinion but I do aver and proclaim that a judge is impeachable who is either, first, so ignorant of the law as to be flagrantly incompetent or, second, who knowing the law, releases on the world a self-confessed murderer of the most vicious type." Stirred to immediate action the House voted (209-to-150) to have its Judiciary Committee...
...that keeps make-up editors tearing their hair and remaking their pages. And on this particular day all make-up editors had to think not only of their regular readers, but of a professional event of much importance-the third annual typographical competition in Philadelphia sponsored by N. W. Aver & Son advertising agency. The contest this year was to be based on issues of March 4. Editors of 1,386 dailies sent their papers of that day to Philadelphia...