Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the characters, however, are exceptionally well drawn, and though I never felt quite as if that gaunt, depressing "house in 82d Street" really existed, I found no difficulty in picturing to myself Mother Regan "to whom no one ever spoke"; Father "his head hung out in front like a lantern"; Frank Stella, and even Dudley. These people do exist. They are not, however, every day characters. Even Laura seems to have a human passion or desire, and one wonders how Dudley, a perfectly ordinary chap, with natural impulses and emotions, ever came to fall so deeply in love...
...Marines and keep your morale clean." And in the vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion of Smedley Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints. For as has been recently stated not far from Harvard Yard--to be a saint one must have been a sinner. Yet all of this does not prevent the colonel from suffering the moral...
...night gives no criterion of the excellences that Friday may bring forth. It is manifestly unfair for any reviewer who saw the play on its opening night to advise an audience which will visit its closing performance. Any review must be one of impressions of circumstances which no longer exist...
...whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning. There is an absolute lack of sport enthusiasm and the old patriotism is regarded by the limited classes which still hold the feeling as a necessary or rather unnecessary evil...
...small arms, they also looked to making cutlery. Now they are rated the greatest in the U. S. for that line, export enormously. They also went into shelf hardware, planned to establish retail stores to canalize large production. But this later program now seems aborted, as relatively few stores exist. The Remington Typewriter Co. has long been an independent company, although sponsored by the Remington Arms Co. The Remington Cash Register Co. is a direct subsidiary...