Word: clays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilled labor that parallels the general demand for unskilled labor and farm workers. In New York every industry is undermanned-as is the case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that will enable union leaders to reestablish the positions they lost in the years of unemployment that followed...
...were extraordinary. Speaking of them Professor Cizek said: " When a child comes here I don't tell him what to do. I bring him into the storeroom and let him rummage through all my treasures-paints and brushes, chalks and canvas, wood for carving, clay for modeling . . . and he soon finds out what he wants to do and he does...
...played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen in the play, but there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre, as one expected, the Luka and the Nastya are but parts...
...suppressed, excruciated passion. Not passion in the Titivating Stories sense, there is the passion of the human mind for perfection as well-passion for material things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what we commonly call happiness...
...that woman's place was on the lecture platform and departed on a $30,000 tour of the country, leaving Husband to be consoled by a distressingly vivacious widow, Son to marry a poor but virtuous hello-girl, and Daughter to fall into the clutches of nicotine, complexion-clay and her mother's manager. But everything came out happily at last. The cast is pretty adequate, though not exciting-the direction and detail good...