Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consulate" by the. self-styled "Consul," Señor A. Jiminez. When reporters dropped in, the Consul assured them that merchandise shipped from the U.S. to Sonora and other states controlled by the rebels would be subject to a heavy fine unless registered with the consulate. Strolling back to their press rooms, and eying latest despatches from Mexico, the reporters could see at a glance how little founded were the pretensions of the Consul and his government to Power...
...than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder committed by someone else...
...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...
...profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...