Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire...
...arise among such pastel make-believes as Mr. Milne's characters. And though his answers are questionable, Mr. Milne knows how to dramatize his questions. The moral excitements are excellently stirred by Henry Hull and Edith Barrett, while Harry Beresford's vignette of a London bobby is beyond praise...
...year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted articles by John Galsworthy and Virgil Barker. In the opening editorial Collector Phillips gives his credo: "There is nothing esoteric and beyond the comprehension of the average man in that incessant spiritual activity, almost as old as the human species, which we call art. . . . The machine age promises to provide more and more opportunity for leisure. Those who tire of the accelerated pace of modern life and the furious tempo...
Invisible Empire. Far beyond these visible outlines extends the invisible empire of the Dollar. Ten billion dollars, in full battle array, are yearly fighting the pound sterling, the franc, the guilder, the mark for supremacy...
...Even beyond its efficacy in the immediate concern of safeguarding children against unsuitable forms of athletics, the planned supervision will bring advantageous changes. It will bring the advice of dentist and physician to many people who are unable to obtain it for their children. In addition, the parents will be furnished with information and counsel which could not be obtained without the expense of an examination undertaken by a doctor...