Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Cradle Song. This play, translated from the Spanish of Gregorio and Ma ie Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world...
The Princetonian has at least evolved a tenable diagnosis of the ill, and the suggestions that have been made are honest attempts at its cure. But much is still to be said, that will probably, for many years at least, remain unsaid. The yearning after synthesis, the desire for some...
Mr. Heflin: "The resolution [to raise the $1,000,000] speaks for itself. It was passed by the Knights of Columbus, who, of course, are Catholics, and the whole trend of the resolution shows a plain desire for war. . . ."
As dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the...
"A superficial consideration might lead to the conclusion that it is merely an attempt to meet the needs of those who desire what is sometimes termed a "gentleman's knowledge" of Literature, as compared with those who aim at a more detailed or scholarly knowledge, but such a view misses...