Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaken what is known professionally as a "heavy production". At Brattle Hall last evening there appeared to be innumerable scenes, many specially engaged actors and a play without much doubt the most difficult to perform which the Club has attempted in some time. The performance last night, in no better nor no worse condition than any professional production on the night before the opening, gave promise of several interesting characteristics. Most outstanding was the promise of more sustained acting than the Club has shown in some of its recent productions. Spectacular as is the present performance, it nevertheless builds from...
While Representative Madden gasped his last (see above), frantic calls went out for Representatives Sirovich (New York), Summers (Washington), Irwin (Illinois), Fitzgerald (Ohio), all of whom are physicians. Dr. Sirovich arrived first and, lacking a better remedy, applied artificial respiration to the dying man. Breath began, the pulse quickened, but not for long. In five minutes the damaged heart stopped beating...
Next day Hagen was better. He had plaster on his blister and he was missing fewer three-foot putts. The crowd, usually annoyed by Hagen's lolling walk, his smile, his Americanisms, his arrogance, and his frequent cigarets, was cheering him now for being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...
Many people are parents. Many parents are stupid. They do not know their children any better than they know the milkman. They are responsible for children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away...
...cubit to his stature by taking thought, but it does not say anything about detracting a cubit or even more from a woman's girth by the same process. In this respect Mitzi, star of "The Madcap" now playing at the Shubert Theatre goes the Good Book one better, for she gives a formula for taking off weight which consists mostly of taking thought...