Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written two decades ago, in the era that demanded of the theatre a Big Scene with plenty of soft sweetness sandwiched in and around. The heroine steals from a wealthy, extravagant friend, in order to dress so well that her husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks...
...that even before she is a novelist. But in this case her psychology is more akin to pathology than to an interpretation of manners and characters which is the true junction of psychological fiction. Taking a family of six children she follows their careers through the stormy era of adolescence and leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish the foundation of Miss Sinclair's book. In their wake...
...fame has grown for more than a century. Drayton Manor, as all good Britishers know, was the home of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some say that he disappointed his ancestors. He was a Tory who could...
This this group is no figment of the imagination the figures of every higher educational institution in the country will testify. It represents a phase in the development of American nationality peculiar to the present era. It demands college wholesale without knowing what college means and without being able to reap the rewards of college. The phase is temporary but it is real. In order to carry the college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior...
...hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...