Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public violence flourishes in Mer Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
...behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical hit Tangerine, shows what Broadway composers of established ability can do when they don't try very hard, and the book, by Charles Bell, explains why Harry B. Smith, the veteran librettist, could write seven or eight musical shows a year without seriously taxing his talents or intelligence. In a word, a very mediocre show, without even the redeeming feature of a first rate comedian...
...Harold Bell Wright, Zane Grey, whose works from savagery defend...
...self-effacing--the only actor in the cast. Rumor hath it that he is a subject of English 47 and therefore a ringer; if it is so, let there be the clanging of more ringers like him. W. N. Gates, as a radio fan, did his job, and the bell boys did theirs, and the unsung heroes of the chorus, m. and f., did theirs. For the most part the musical numbers bearing the symbols of Salinger '23, and Alger '22 (who is evidently out of course, of course) were the most coherent. To mention those who contributed...
Reverend W. S. Guth of Baltimore, Reverend Samuel McComb of the Episcopal Theological School, Reverend S. M. Crothers of Cambridge, Reverend E. C. Moore of the University Faculty, Reverend H. I. Bell of Anandale-on-the-Hudson, Reverend C. A. Barbour of Rochester, Bishop L. H. Roots of Hankow, China, Reverend H. W. Foote of the Theological School, Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, Bishop C. L. Slattery of Boston, Reverend P. R. Frothingham of Boston, Reverend C. R. Brown of the Yale School of Religion. Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, Reverend W. W. Fenn of the Theological...