Word: diversionism
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Twenty miles from the Ohio shore, in Lake Erie, is Pelee Island, Ontario. It is having a real-estate boom. One J. A. Baxter and the Manhattan financial firm of Mills Mover & Co. announced plans for "the greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the...
"Mellon and Couzens are both very rich men. They are the richest two men in active political life. Each is the case of a man able to command any form of leisure or diversion known to wealth, but foregoing all that and actually working harder at the public business than...
Ubiquitous optimism is at times depressing. Nevertheless a diversion from the cynicism and satire of numerous contemporaneous works is not unwelcome. It is, therefore, with considerable enthusiasm that we welcome the "glad girl" back to Boston. The piece is refreshing. Its sincerity is as welcome as it is undeniable. We...
For a light and laughable diversion, any of the following is prescribed: Music Box, Zicgfcld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Grab Bag, Chauve Sonris, Big Boy.
The Dark Angel. Michael Aden's first play sustains that singular Armenian's record for tart diversion. For The Dark Angel was obviously written by Michael Arlen, despite the credit of the playbill to H. B. Trevelyan. The technic may be Guy Bolton's (who wove the...