Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor players leave the stage with a racking stage laugh that chilled the spectator, and gave him a sense that they were pleased to have done for the moment with their share in the production. The inane giggle that overcomes most actors whose parts call for an "exit laughing" is something that demands immediate attention in our theatre. Then, too, the entire company stole the Cardinal's fire-works in their mage of handkerchiefs. One would have thought that the entire court of Louis XIII was sorely afflicted with chronic catarrh if the abundance of lace handkerchiefs...
...decent men in this country want peace. The American people are undergoing a moral revival after the slump immediately succeeding that golden age of statesmanship which ended with the exit of Woodrow Wilson. I doubt the existence of any 'widespread misinterpretation of the meaning and mandate of the great Harding vote'. Every sign points to be existence of a general desire on the part of the American people for a League of Nations of some sort or another. Mr. Wilson has laid out a simple, direct and practical path towards the realization of permanent peace, and all we have...
Dodging classes is a popular pastime in some college circles, and the favorite exit is via the doctor's office. Sign-offs for illness are of necessity easy to obtain; a red-nosed, be handkerchiefed pleader who coughs with any degree of sincerity can usually prevail over the most wary doctor. The ethics of such a procedure is debatable; but with regular classes closed, that question does not concern us seriously at this moment. More important is the opposite attitude, that of the man whose devotion to his work keeps him mixing with his neighbors regardless of his health...
...that anyone would object to the exit of the very sad prohibition jokes--but he resents the implication that he may not make such a joke whenever the spirit so moves him. Humor, however, is irrepressible; and the ridiculousness of the plan itself causes the prohibited to chuckle. As a contributor to the New York Times has pointedly asked, "will we have to have still another law prohibiting jokes about the suppression of prohibition jokes...
...noon-day preacher at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul today. The service will begin at 12.10 and will conclude at 12.35; so that Harvard men will have no difficulty in attending the service during the noon period. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul is directly opposite the escalator exit of the Park Street Subway...