Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the most impressive ceremony in the history of the U.S.-Mexican diplomacy. Crowds craned. The press cheered. As if to inaugurate an era of better feeling, President Calles raised the embargo on the purchase of U. S. goods by Mexican Government offices-a retributive measure -and the ban on mail in Mexico from U.S. insurance companies- a ban required by the law which makes foreign companies invest money in Mexico" before doing business there...
...Reform Era in Prussia," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...year: "I have observed with satisfaction this year the increase in your series of boat races, indicating an increase in your love of this sport and that you prefer boats for sporting purposes to boats leaving Spain. This is doubly consoling, since the new generation is introducing a new era, representing what Spain is, was and will...
John Cumberland plays Pickwick. He once used to roll under and from under beds in the parlor- bedroom-and-bath era of U. S. farce, complaining bitterly to his friends of the sad condition of the theatre that necessitated such ig- noble dramaturgy. He now has a more congenial role, but not, prob- ably, for long. Though cartoons of Dickens's narrative have been faith- fully staged, theatre-goers will find themselves bored by what is, after all, only the Pickwick tabloid Papers...