Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike was recorded in all its gory glory by Mary Heaton Vorse. An editor of the New Student compiled reports of undergraduate demonstrations of all kinds and dimensions to show how many "learners" were "in active revolt." More coherent was a dialog in limbo between Lenin and Anatole France, by Poet Babette Deutsch. More profound, and quite un-Communistic save in its departure from conventional form, was an "Apology for Bad Dreams" by the country's new national poet, Robinson Jeffers of the Pacific headlands...
...audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights and a howling siren. A poet's art is applied to mechanism...
...shall not criticize the Treaty of Versailles. It is a fact. It is what it is. If I had been called upon to frame it, I would say could have done no better. . But I can hear again that tragic dialog which took place when the Chamber was called on to give assent to that treaty! Anxiety for our security occupied every mind. We questioned it. M. Clemenceau was asked would this Anglo-American guarantee hold, for which we had abandoned our natural frontier. We were reminded of certain incidents which showed that, perhaps, America would not, after all, give...
...Fascist organ L'Impero cried: "The Mussolini-Stresemann tilt was a dialog between an Eagle and a Crow?an encounter between Rapier and Paunch...
With some thudding dialog in Michigan, California, Ohio, and a few words of comedy in Cambridge, the Football of 1925 came virtually to an end. There were still some encores-Washington, although it is already considered the champion of the Pacific Coast, was to meet Oregon; the Army and Navy were to hold their yearly drill; Notre Dame was to play Nebraska. But the rest has, been decided: Michigan and Northwestern are tied for the Conference Championship; Princeton purrs smugly with one paw on Harvard, one on Yale; Dartmouth, best team in the East, rounded off its unbroken string...