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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unbending in its rules; the period previous to 1924 saw the Club presenting only plays of foreign authors, never before produced in America; the next few years introduced authors of this nation, but slowly turned from straight drama given by students to a semi-professional cast and a repertory either sensational or frankly song-and-dance. The disturbances of last December caused, for this season at least, the abolition of outside aid, but they have also resulted in further depreciation of the value of the Club...
...portrait of President Harding is hanging in the White House because the joint congressional committee on the library, acting on recommendation of Charles Moore, chairman of the commission of fine arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased...
...easy for the new Earl, either. He had taken the Trimmers along to help him out, but at that there was no car at the station to meet them, and the crowd on the platform did not seem to like the checked caps that he and his boy, now Viscount Perceval, wore. Also, the dowager Countess of Egmont was sitting in the home that had been hers for so many years and would, so reporters told Fred Perceval, refuse to move...
...maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works to cost the breath-taking sum of 12 billion 500 million dollars. Bold and ten times bold, this scheme would commit the fledgling, two-year-old Nationalist Government to pour out every year, for public works...
...which is at least twice as efficient as best artificial light, becomes the question whether chemists will ever be able to synthesize the protein luciferin. Dr. Harvey thought that "that will come in the future. We now synthesize fats, sugars, and some of the polypetides." Luciferin seems to be either a peptone or a proteose...