Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Patterson of Missouri complained that he was not even notified by the President at the appointments of two important Missourians-Dwight Filley Davis as Governor-General of the Philippines ; C. B. Denman as a member of the Federal Farm Board. Senator Patterson's first inkling of this "patronage" came from newsmen...
...said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
...that time she is leaning toward a virile magazine writer (Warren Williams) and their host and hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...
Ever since the much lamented resignation of Professor G. P. Baker, there has been very little constructive theatrical development among students, and as time goes on there seems to be even less chance of there ever being any vigorous development in that field. Of the clubs producing plays, only the Dramatic Club professes to be primarily interested in the theater, but various unfortunate circumstances seem to have prevented them from attaining their goal...
...copy in existence. This was bought by Mr. Widener for $20,000 not long after he graduated from Harvard, in 1907, and now has a value of at least $70,000. Although this is the price listed, it would be hard to procure one of the first folio editions even at that cost...