Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generally speaking it could be quite a lot worse, and yet you won't come away over-enthusiastic. The war theme has lain quiet just long enough for it to be hauled forth with moderate success. But just this once; the next time we'll all walk...
...truth that the talking movies will replace the legitimate drama inside of ten years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...
Boston's indoor track season will come to a meteoric close Saturday night when the runners of Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell meet for the eleventh annual triangular clash in the Boston Garden. For the first time in many years the Red runners from Ithica will arrive here generally favored to break the Crimson's string of four consecutive victories and carry off the laurels...
...that. A victorian in "The American" but a contemporary modern (and a model impossible to copy) in "The Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...
This is a comforting thought, but it might be more comforting if it had not been thought before and so often that it seems really to need no more crusaders to champion its truth. There has come from the presses lately a steady stream of literature, all of which maintains, in effect, that the colleges are all right, and do not deserve the criticism leveled at them by a number of people which is certainly less than the number now refuting the criticism...