Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
...would like to bring to the attention of CRIMSON readers the following excerpt from an article in the "New Statesman" (Liberal Labor Weekly), entitled "Are lectures worth while...
...enthusiastically reviewed by the British Press, many critics pronouncing it Lady Gregory's best work since "The Workhouse Ward" and joined in high commendation of the masterful treatment of a very difficult subject. Something of the humorous, imaginative spirit that pervades the play may be grasped from the following excerpt from "The Freeman's Journal," Dublin...