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Sarazen meanwhile has finished his labor in the land of celluloid and returned to open the spring season at the Briar cliff Lodge Club (Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.), where he is employed as professional at a salary reputed to be larger than that of most of the members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walto and Gene | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

Some popular favorites now appearing in Manhattan: Ethel Barrymore (The Laughing Lady); Jane Cowl (Romeo and Juliet); Lenore Ulric (Kiki); Helen Menken ( Seventh Heaven); Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies); David Warfield (The Merchant of Venice); Lowell Sherman (The Masked Woman and Morphia); Margaret Lawrence (Secrets); Billie Burke (Rose Briar); Peggy Wood (The Clinging Vine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...sanctuary where busting efficiency and blazing lights have not penetrated. In the Union library there are good books, staunch old friends that have proved their worth before generations; there are comfortable chairs into which one may sink deep in luxury, thoughtless of decorum; here one can cram the briar full of fragrant Virginian, light it with freedom and lie back in blissful serenity and ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OASIS | 3/27/1920 | See Source »

LOST.- At east door of Fogg Art Museum, a monogram briar pipe. Will finder kindly leave at this office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/22/1897 | See Source »

...Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added to its indubitably strong effect with a more frequent contrast of the comic and some such centering principle as that of "A Window in Thrums." Maclaren's pathos on the other hand is indescribably quick, poignant, and as the French say-saisissant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. COPELAND'S LECTURE. | 12/12/1895 | See Source »

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