Word: background
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the "Marseillaise" is sung at the game Saturday afternoon, it is planned, as was done last year, to have certain men wave white handkerchiefs during the singing so that the effect will be that of a white "H" on a crimson background. Those who have not yet procured crimson handkerchiefs and megaphones may do so at Holworthy 17 today and tomorrow between 12 and 2.30 o'clock. The price of handkerchiefs is five cents, megaphones fifteen...
...Broken Mirror," last of a series of stories of Mme. Saumon's pension on Eliot street, is too obvious in plot and only near-English in style. The tone suggested by the first line, "Dulling their background like two pearls in a cabbage patch," is fortunately not maintained throughout. A sketch, Mr. Skinner's Indian tale "The Love of a Friend," is simple and good. Perhaps the Apache saying which heads it--"Any man can slay an enemy, but only an Apache is brave enough to kill a friend"--anticipates too much the conclusion...
...every cultivated man should be interested in it. The difficulty seems to lie in the question, whether the study of the Bible can be separated from religion. To answer in the affirmative seems like stating a paradox. This fact, however, seems clear: that religion may be left in the background, with the idea of literature in the front. As literature the Bible has an almost universal appeal. Bible classes are not crowded, because every man feels that here the Book is studied not for itself, but as a proof or basis of some creed. Considered by itself, it would awaken...
...goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...
...Edward VI and his court to the University of Cambridge, where an entertainment entitled "A Masque of Prophecy," depicting the future of the art of architecture, is given in his honor. The historic setting has been arranged to utilize the possibilities of the Union Living Room as a splendid background for an affair for this kind. Besides those taking active part, there will be present members of the Faculty, representatives from the Boston Society of Architects, and from other organizations representing artistic activities. All these guests will wear academic or historic costume. After the masque, supper will be served...