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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed to notice any patrons of the Plymouth writhing in their chairs. In the first act, a young boy remarks that he likes his women firm, and someone else makes a comment about the gypsy's "bust and hips". That no doubt will be cut by the censors, and except for a spot in the third act where the son of the house is seen emerging by the light of dawn from the b-droom of the gypsy, there is little indeed that ought to worry the Watch and Ward...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/26/1928 | See Source »

...century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases to wonder at the nervousness of men in public life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK THEM ANOTHER | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

...batting order will remain the same as that which faced Groton except that Samborski will cover left field and Gilmore will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BASEBALL TEAM PLAYS ST. JOHN'S | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

...business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A & P Attacked | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Even in France one does not take this genial 250-pounder seriously--no one, that is, except the police, who have learned from bitter experience that behind this gentleman's grand opera gestures there beats a brain capable of engineering even the most subtle of prison breaks...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: French, English, American Essays | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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