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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PULITZER PLAY ATTESTS JUDGES' ACUMEN | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

...they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them? They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school notion of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEETING TONIGHT SOUNDS CALL FOR ALL CANDIDATES | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...Story: Of all human desires none find more panders than the desire to deceive, to make a false effect. For those who are unbeautiful, chemists have always been able to find, in paint and rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs are for those who can grow no hair; magicians, incapable of miracles, can conjure up an appearance of supernatural; many a pretentious coping is built, as i to protect the high rooms of some splendid mansion, along an untenanted rood; the vase with one broken handle faces the world with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Progress: In the Parlor | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger in that ancient twisted heart. Emily asked no questions. She looked at her mother with fury and fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Avarice House | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...defense, are cited as the outstanding culprits of a system that has saddled an incubus on the high schools. Whereas formerly the issue being debated has been regarded as of at least minor importance, it now received no attention whatever. And a million high school boys and girls, who find little of the abundant humor that the Debating Union finds in the prohibition question, are forced to follow in imitation of those who had hitherto been believed the most trust-worthy of guides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REBUTTAL | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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