Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Green Goes. It was an undemonstrative, quiet little man whom the House stood up and cheered one day last week. His small, tired face bore the wrinkles of 17 years on a judge's bench in Iowa and 17 more years at a Representative's desk in Washington. In the present Congress and the two preceding it he had sat as chairman when the Ways & Means Committee was pondering long, statistical revenue bills. He was William Raymond Green, lord high custodian of the prime principle for which-the Fathers fought-taxation with representation...
...series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine-the death...
...rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...
...mortals should not take advantage of the magnanimity of such a creature. Can they doubt that with powers such as it possesses it could blast them from the face of the earth? Witches could be burned, but a poltergeist that can change his habitation from person to person at will is best left alone...
...University, second University and Freshman wrestling teams will all see action this afternoon when the University seconds journey to Andover to versity matmen face Williams, the Uni-meet the schoolboys, and the first-year grapplers take on Choate...