Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although there was hoarse outcry from great groups of intelligentsia over the award last year (Icebound by Owen Davis) the verdict is usually accepted and the winning play recognized as the leader in native dramatic literature. In face of the quantity and quality of successful American plays produced last year...
As a parting shot, it may be of interest to record the fact that Owen Davis, winner of the Pulitzer 'prize for 1923, has dramatized "The Nervous Wreck" and that under the direction of Sam Harris the play has been pleasing nightly New York audiences for some time. But I...
The death of General Lee Christmas, the original hero of "Soldiers of Fortune," may be considered as marking the end of an epoch. The adventurous, romantic kind of warfare in which he won his fame may still exist in remote places, although even Mexico is amusing herself with airplanes and...
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor: "In a newspaper statement, I said: 'Some men are by nature beavers and some rats. ... A civilization rises when the beaver-men outnumber the rat-men. When the rat-men get the upper hand, the civilization falls. Then the rats turn and eat one...
The summary: Harvard Princeton Walker, Austin, l.w. r.w., A. Davis, Wilkinson, Snyder Beals, Hill, Burgess, c. c., Van Gerbig Hodder, Hill. r.w. l.w., Wilkinson, Trenholm, C. Davis Chase, Rammond, l.d. l.d., Wall Crosby, r.d. r.d., Seull. Trenholm Cummings, g. g., Gleason, Colebrook