Word: end
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rope's End. A malevolent scent pervades the theatre wherein this play is exhibited. Perhaps it really exists. More likely it is imaginary, for the audience observes such diseased events as render the senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet...
...stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor in the world movement to end war. Nonlimitation of war materials is equivalent to non-disarmament...
...Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted the private car did not carry an empty baggage car behind, usual Hutton caution against rear-end collisions...
...time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special hands, they spent the time playing bridge. At the end of a five-day meeting, the student-teachers were examined by Whitehead's secretary, who is a bridge teacher herself. Those who passed were given diplomas, valid for one year, proving beyond cavil that they are qualified to teach bridge...
...John and Florence wed in simple ceremony"..."Anne Lindbergh wins affection of all by democratic sympathy"..."Hoovers pass quiet week-end with guests at Virginia camp"..."Prime Minister MacDonald and daughter dressed in height of simplicity"..."Jimmie Walker has forty suits...