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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Informed of Cassidy's arrest, Senator Blease of South Carolina asked mournfully: "Why do they pick on the Senate?" Always ready to believe the best, Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, author of the Five & Ten Law, remarked: "There was nothing to show that he was delivering liquor to a Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Washington's War | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Going Back to Nassau Hall" | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Despite unwieldy complications, the plot is not a bad one for a melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...

Author: By G. P., | Title: THE GINGER CAT. BY Christopher Reeve. William Morrow & Co. New York, 1929, $2.00, | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...program of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for this afternoon and tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, Serge Koussevitzky will offer one novel selection, Gruenberg's Symphony Poem, "Enchanted Isle" Gruenberg is a Russian, born in 1885, now living and working in New York, best known in American concert halls by a swirling setting of Vachel Lindsay's "Daniel Jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

After all, one of the finest things about Boston is that it is one of the best places to go away from in the world. Rocky coast, sandy beach, blue-grey hills are all within easy striking distance. Consequently the effects of week-ending at Harvard are not usually so dire as those reported from the institutions which are situated in the country, and whose undergraduates therefore feel an attraction to the slightly spurious delights of the metropolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK-END | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

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