Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poverty: (The speech's most eloquent passage): "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation...
Thus ended the tragedy of the F14, but a courageous epilogue was enacted off Santander, Spain, last week by King Alfonso XIII, Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...
...divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe the rest of the ceremony: royal breeches and hose, royal shirt by way of the First Valet of the Wardrobe, to the Grand Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while the nightshirt...
...first two acts of the play, was consistent enough to be frankly and fearfully melodramatic. The cast is scattered through the theatre in reckless, impertinent profusion and the technique of The Miracle and murder mysteries is carried so far as to include a sidewalk revival meeting before the final...
Swan Song picks up familiar threads of earlier episodes in the saga, yet such is the artistry that the final portrait is complete for one unfamiliar with the earlier volumes. Such one, unfortunate, may indeed sense that dramatic action is over and done, but there remains the thrilling finale fire, and there remains a generous supply of Galsworthy's sound philosophy, and his engrossing though rather unsound sociology...