Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance of the audience and get it into a laughing mood...
...succeeds in relegating himself to a similar precarious position. For while undergraduates might tolerate a cinematic absurdity in which the beautiful "co-ed" acts as water boy to the football team and promises herself to the man who makes the winning touchdown, they certainly will not tolerate having aspersions cast upon their manly ability to appreciate football...
...Commerce on federal tax reduction. Half of the space in this report was given to arguments in the negative. The members receiving this report were requested to study it and to vote "yes" or "no." . . . The six votes of the Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce were apportioned and cast in accordance with the replies of this group...
Today there will be sounds of music and dancing of Juniors in the streets; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for those who are cast into outer darkness, for the draw has been made. The little brown envelopes have been drawn out of the pillow case or other receptacle used, and from the fingers of the benevolent committee honey has dripped to some and gall to others...
...Jekyll and Hyde motif in intricate feminine psychology is the basis of the play "Hidden", which opened Monday evening at the Bollis Street Theatre. Out of it is constructed a powerful play of rather sinister simplicity. There are five players in the cast and of them two are of slight importance. The scene remains unchanged for the three acts, always the same room in the same house in New York. The acting being excellent, the play is thus concentrated upon its central theme with a force that, on the opening night at least, made the audience almost uncomfortable with suspense...