Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sending to our soldiers the atrical entertainment from home. In company with Mr. E. B. Sothern, the Shakesperean actor, I spent three months surveying the varied conditions. We visited at least 50 of The American encampments, and spent one night under artillery fire at Toul, which was then our front...
...which the army had assigned its social welfare work, sent to France some 300 actors and vaudeville performers. Travelling in little groups of four and five, these players gave thousands of performances in American camps and leave-areas. Several of them accompanied our men to the front, and a few played under actual fire. This work continued until all our troops, except the comparatively few regulars left at Coblenx, had returned home...
Once more the great public diversion and private pleasure, tax cutting, came to the front; for the Ways and Means Committee of the House assembled in Washington to draft a new tax reduction law for the Congress that meets in December. The lines of the fight were well laid down in advance of the hearing. Everyone-Administration and opposition-is for it. The question is, what and how much...
France. A rare still life by Forain (painted in 1872) already mellowed by time; a strongly accented brown nude by Derain; Edward Vuillard's comfortable "Woman in Front of a Fireplace"; a curiously enervated drawing by Matisse; work by Menard, Besnard Danchez, Le Sidaner, Blanche; a full length painting by witty Guy Pene Du Bois of a nude woman seen from behind while she peeps through a slit in her curtain window at something in the next room...
...Sunday paper waited with its many crisp, exciting layers, like a pile of griddle cakes, beside their coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside section) the Pioneer was the same streaky lump it had been before...