Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features of this play distinguish it from those of preceding years. The first part consists of a debate between the prophets and a high priest concerning the possibilities of a virgin birth. There are several elaborate tableaux, lighted, and accompanied by music, with some chants sung in Latin...
...view of this analysis one cannot but ask whether even yet, with the innovations employed this year in the election of new members. Phi Beta Kappa has taken adequate measures to distinguish between "Man Thinking" and "the parrot of other men's thinking...
...known that he was trying to prevail upon his father to spend the winter at the White House to get out of the chilly drafts in the Vermont hills; furthermore that his father likes to have his name, John C. Coolidge, spelled with the middle "C", to distinguish him from the President's son John...
There are people who declare that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are terms used to distinguish alien faiths, and if they breed at all, their child must be a sterile creature, without pride of parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black...
...SHIPS-Kathleen Norris- Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Said Rupert Hughes of Kathleen Norris: "She lives life, reads people and writes books." He might well have added that she eats a hearty breakfast, loves children and dresses stylishly. So many magazine writers do the same. There is little or nothing to distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment...