Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though to those eyes and ears which do not abide Restoration drama in all its grossness this expurgated edition may be accepted with loss protest. A keen admirer of the Restoration gentleman, with all his artifices and crass language, chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure...
...vote for the Laborites, Socialists, "Reds." In the great days when Gladstone was the pillar of Liberalism such an imputation would have been merely absurd; but today the Liberal Party is led and dominated by mercurial David Lloyd George, and should the 'balance of power' ever come into his hands again he is only too likely to side with the Laborites...
...Graphic has, "with an earnest desire to bring lonely people together," established a Lonely Hearts' page. Men and women seeking companions do not have to pay to have their notices inserted in the Graphic. They can even have their photographs published free of charge, if they will but come to the Graphic office. This new lure was established last week. It is all a labor of love: "Drab, colorless lives have been made bright; discouraged souls have been given renewed faith in mankind and have found new interests in life." Specimen Lonely Hearts of the last two weeks...
...Anne Urquhart Stillman, 48, wife of a rich man who was once a banker, has long had dealings with reporters. She has thrown crockery at them, which has served only to make them come closer. At last, she has taken some of them into her pay, for she has financed and founded Panorama, "New York's Illustrated News Weekly." The first red-covered issue appeared last week. About half of it consisted of good-to-excellent photographs, and half, of poor-to-passable articles. Neither photographs nor articles were apropos anything in particular...
...about the city. Here and there he let it be known that Winnipeg suited him. A good town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they had begun, the man's wanderings ceased. The police had some questions to ask him. The most important...