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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many women fall for this very reason. They think that all they have to do is to have a pretty face, get up and say a cute one or two, and then go draw a large salary at the end of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jane Cowl Surprised That Lines of "Road to Rome" Should Be Cut in Boston-Acting More Part of Women Than of Men | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania on February 20 at Philadelphia. The question was to have been "Resolved, That all, nations should abandon extraterritoriality in China", but a recent decision of the two universities has prompted a change in the subject which will be announced later. On February 25 the University orators will face the Williams debaters in Cambridge. The subject is still undecided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILIPPINE AND PORTO RICAN TEAMS TO MEET DEBATERS | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

...will be a hard battle for the first place in the event, as we must face Skald from Sweden, who has officially done 180 feet," Farrell prophesied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL GIVES OPINION ON OLYMPIC PROSPECTS | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...that village-people of strange ancestries, of dark longings. The central figure, more acted upon than acting, is one Theodosia Bell, born of a lustful father and a pallid mother. Briefly, the story deals with her girlhood; it develops her being, shows her as a neurotic, pitifully inadequate to face life alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful period of mania. And in the end it leaves her in a pastoral security, safe enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY HEART AND MY FLESH. By Elizabeth Madox Roberts. The Viking Press New York, 1927, $2.50. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...poems urge the readers to be reminiscent and see in the face of them the delightful pains and shudders of growing youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Books of Poetry | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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