Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able creatures who created Rain out of W. Somerset Maugham's story, has written another spectacular play of foreign parts and strange people. It has a high flavor of sex and a flame of melodrama. China is the general setting, and a Chinese disorderly house the specific. The central character is the vicious old procuress, capably played by Florence Reed. It seems that the English had insulted her at some early point in her existence. Wherefore she got an English child into her house. Pretty soon the English parents arrive. This combination of events naturally gives Miss Reed...
After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
Shelter is about a gang of outcasts residing under one of the New York bridges. A saintly hunchback is the central character, and a burly intruding kidnaper the principal flame of drama. It is inefficient...
...regards the general appearance special emphasis has been placed on the necessity of making the building harmonize with the best traditions of Harvard architecture. The material is red "brick with the central doorway and cornices of limestone. The window trim and the doors will be of wood similar to that used in the older buildings of the Yard...
...mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...