Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...along the way as Publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, oldest of Hearst newspapers, after experience as Editor of the New York Mirror (since sold by Hearst) and President of the New York American. The second son, his father's namesake, is only 22 but already his thin young face wears deep marks of experience and looks like his sire's from the side...
...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
...considered as part of their college education", he said. "Certainly the contacts formed through newspaper and magazine competitions are of as much value as lectures and study, and both would be of more significance if related to one another. The future university will help the student to face the total interest of life, and his studies will become activities...
...mailed fist of the law is beginning to cast an ominous shadow over the parking spaces around Harvard Square. If the threatening pronunciamento which was uttered by the blue-coated majesty is to be taken at its face value, there will be many sons of Harvard hailing from distant climes who would be glad of the opportunity of claim the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as their native heath...