Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the World's Series about to drop the curtain on 1924 baseball, and with football playing the leading role on the stage of college athletics, the baseball practice last week on Soldiers' Field seemed an anachronism. Coach Fred Mitchell is, however, going about his work as though it were April rather than September. His intention is to make the fall work a real test instead of a mere means of exercise for men with nothing...
...herein concerned with displaying the vagaries of the modern shrew. The curtain ascends on a man and his wife quarrelling at a theatre. The scene slips away to their comfortable Long Island home where she bickers and batters him into revolt. He deserts to the easier confines of debauchery, finally is shot by the shrew. The scene reverts to the theatre. It has all been a play. The shrew is reduced to tearful penitence and they depart, presumably to a life of humdrum harmony...
Promptly the pious Duchess falls in love with the professor. Through a misarrangement of rendezvous, the second act curtain finds her in the darkened living room?and in the arms of her butler. Meanwhile the maid of the household and the daughter fall in love with the same Professor. Through a second misarrangement, the maid entertains the daughter's visiting fiance while the daughter wanders through the gardens learning other things but literature from her Professor...
...foreign cities and private companies may seek U. S. capital by offering their stocks and bonds to our investors via Wall Street. Naturally investors will hesitate to invest in such securities until the stability of national government loans seems assured. A German loan is in consequence somewhat of a "curtain-raiser" to a period of numerous and extensive foreign loans...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK−The "Awkward Age" engagingly revived by the Provincetown Players, with all indigenous sentiments, asides, characters−and chairs painted on the rolled-up curtain...