Word: flame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unrestrained. Nor is this last act the solitary outburst of a dying fire; it is the culmination of a long series of events which have marked but too well the fact that the embers of the Empire have merely been banked for a time, and are ready to flame up again at the proper moment. Germany in her present condition is a menace which must not be disregarded...
...this way, besides the unusual appeal made by the simplicity of the whole affair, the funds collected can be turned over "in tote" to be used over seas, without being deviated into numerous channels of expense. This in itself, is an admirable plan. But it is with the flame of the candle that the diners will be most concerned. There burns the mysticism of the lives of a coming generation; great and unselfish indeed is the spirit of those who would shield for a time the newly lighted and helpless name from the premature blasts or an unheeding world...
...Japanese are allowed to increase by birth and by illegal infiltration as rapidly as they are now increasing in California, the fire of race antagonism will burst into a much more dangerous flame than has yet been the case. When violence, lynching, anti-Japanese Ku Klux Klans, and race-riots make their appearance in the West, as they no doubt will if the Japanese are allowed to take possession of the land and the work which the American considers his by racial right, we shall have a situation much more dangerous to international peace than the present slight wound...
...proper method of meeting the situation. These radical organizations have recruited their ranks largely from unskilled laborers who are discontented with the present order because of hideous working conditions, because they are forced to be homeless and wifeless. Does not such a procedure only add fuel to the flame...
...success by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. At the time the press described it "as a fantastic, genuinely funny play in three acts, a wonder play of spell-bound princesses, of kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists instead of dramatic tradesmen...