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...position today. Since the production of one of his first plays. "Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model", he has been one of America's successful playwrights. His play "Icebound" was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Some of the other popular plays written by him are "The Detour", "The Nervous Wreek", and "Lazybones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMA SCHOOL OFFERS OPEN ADDRESS BY DAVIS | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

...upon the Patapsco fc (Water-Of-Many-White-Caps) River at the spot where, on a British warship in 1814, Prisoner Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." Far to the east are the smoke and glare of the great new Bethlehem Steel mills. North of Baltimore planes detour to give a wide berth to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Thence: Havre de Grace racetrack; Philadelphia's desolate Sesquicentennial Exposition site; Hog Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: E. A. T. | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Making a long detour, the monks of St. Bernard reached their hospice safely. They were puzzled, vexed by their experience. The two hospices of St. Bernard have offered hospitality and aid for almost a thousand years to all wayfarers, regardless of race, creed or party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fascists v. Monks | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Last week Feng, with his "largest private army," was reported to be making a wide, westward detour around the battle area, intending to capture Hankow, on the River Yangtze, "The Chicago of China," so called because it is the chief commercial city of Central China. If he does capture Hankow, Feng can descend the river and approach Nanking's rear in crushing force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Again, War | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Near Detour, Mich., the ore boat William B. Pilkey, wedged helplessly on a reef, was heaved and pummeled by the storming surf of Autumn's first bad storm. Desperate Coast-Guardsmen rescued her crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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