Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Endowments. The era of physical expansion at the colleges had by no means, ended nor the endowment-raising era to maintain buildings and support the pedagogy that is to operate within them. The biggest campaign announced during the year was that of New York University, for 73 millions in the next decade. (During 1923-24 the total gifts to all colleges, not counting state appropriations, was only 91 millions...
...suggesting war as the necessary alternative to humiliation or that deployment of national prosperity so ill attuned to the national car. Such times may well occur again, peace parliaments and leagues to the contrary notwithstanding. In show the moment for complete disarmament is as yet one with that visionary era of international goodwill toward which all possible effort must continuously he directed, but of which there is as yet no absolute certainly...
...different years when actors and producers were struggling to break with those conventions of their art which may most conveniently be seen at the present revival of "The Two Orphans," which illustrates in all except the acting and the scenes (which are not of the gas-light era) the variety of play popular in the transition from the Old Drama to the New, with its soliloquies, asides, mingling of individual and type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone...
...there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future chance to pave their prosperity with the concertos reality of such physical phenomena...
...Novel from the Play by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood - Doran ($2). Now there is a chance for all who were too young, busy, distant or improvident to see one of this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place...