Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Alva Edison said last week: ''Without great improvements people will tire of talkies. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in the silent pictures...
...nearly $1,000,000 had been raised, enough to begin work on the long-antici-pated Liverpool Cathedral. What the Archbishop added was exciting to religious folk. Said he: "Hitherto all cathedrals have been dedicated to saints. I hope this one will be dedicated to Christ Himself with a great figure surmounted on the cathedral visible for many a mile...
...pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
...Shrewd observers soon suspected an excellent motive behind the Archbishop's words. They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...
...isolated cases of inebriated homicides were these. Nor was Mrs. Pantages' killing, if she was drunk as charged, strange. For decades women have been tippling as heavily as men. and in great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two women died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four...