Word: four
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborites fiercely defended their Government in both Houses of Parliament last week, battling on four major Empire issues: Unemployment; Disarmament; Dominion Status for India; Resumption of Relations with Soviet Russia. Jabs were scathing, digs sharp and deep. But on the whole the debate was the most vital and constructive of a lackadaisical Parliamentary year...
...Pronounce the Word!" It was now four hours past midnight. The grand debate narrowed to an issue?and what an issue! Some Deputies of the Left (thoroughgoing anticlericals) demanded to know "if the Government will pronounce the word 'laicism'" in connection with an obscure educational bill totally extraneous to the debate...
...Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti...
...school record won him a scholarship at nearby Rutgers College (New Brunswick, N. J.). At Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called him "the greatest defensive end that ever trod the gridiron...
...symphony orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce...