Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad will be greatly aided by having the new Garden to practice in as it has much better facilities than the old Arena. It will also be much better for games as the new building will hold almost twice as many spectators as the old one would...
...editorial concluded: "The American Mercury will be a great deal better magazine hereafter than it has ever been in the past." Beneath this sentence stood the fanfare initials...
...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln...