Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...
Married. George Campbell Carson, 55, "Desert Rat," who successfully fought for $20,000,000 in royalties on a smelting machine patent; to four-times-married Mrs. Hersee M. Gross, who said she had now found her "dream man"; in San Francisco...
...ceremony. Representing the Aeolian Co. Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...
...than Senator Carter Glass, 69, peppery Virginian. He has been close to the Federal government† while these laws took body. Last week he wrote: "We have been so absorbed here [in Congress] that I have not considered it desirable to pause long enough to disturb a queer dream about the paternity of the Federal Reserve act." Less patient "fathers," at dinner tables, might justly say: "In 1913, we who were keen to the inflexibility of the old National banking laws, succeeded in putting through the Congress the Federal Reserve Bank law. . . ." Alexander Hamilton created a national bank...
...school student, admirer and correspondent of several actresses, wrote a long letter saying "to die will be a glorious adventure. ... It is my belief that my spirit will some day enter into the body of a playwright and will call forth the story of a boy who loved to dream, the story of a boy who was so disillusioned that he couldn't stand it any more," and inhaled illuminating...