Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convention began with Mr. Mahoney's appearing before a curtain representing a sylvan scene. He delivered a keynote speech: "We have always employed methods sanctioned by the Constitution. We have always followed democratic and legal procedure. Our opponents have not. The ruling class never does use democratic and constitutional procedure unless it serves its ends...
...sides are folded out and supported on hinged legs, giving a stage some 15 feet square. An upper stage is placed over the driver's seat. Then a canvas roof and background is raised over the platform, tents are raised to right and left for dressing rooms, and a curtain stretched between...
...said to be "the Euripides of Texas." It was an indictment of the hasty judgments on which lynchings are founded in the South, and although it represented a Yankee peddler as a thief, it stirred a Northern audience so deeply that the tournament management had to keep the curtain down to make them go home. The cast consisted of Julia Hogan, Louise Bond, Joe Peel and Louis Quince (who appropriately played a sour countryman...
...curtain raiser to the drama of the giants, Dr. Thomas Sewall Adams, Professor of Political Economy at Yale University, resigned from government work. The eminent economist had been employed as special adviser to the committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau. Writing to Senator "Jim" Watson, he said: "To probe for the sake of probing impresses me-if I may say so without offense-as a particularly demoralizing form of child's play...
...bolts with comparatively little effect at Mr. Eliot, and the astonishing force and vigor of his character are well portrayed. His hands are held in characteristic position; on the table to the left are books and papers, the papers painted with singularly luminous and happy touch. A red curtain on the left hand upper part of the picture is balanced by the red table cover showing in the lower right hand corner...