Word: half
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession of elderly men filed down the steps into the Gothic chapel, those who had not been there before read the inscription above the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
...rehearses a new play. There is no time out for luncheon?she eats raw eggs and drinks coffee on the go. From 3:30 to 5:30 she rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that...
...year and a half the Pavlowa company trekked down the East Coast of South America, across the Andes, up the West Coast to Panama, thence to Cuba, Mexico. When she returned to the U. S., Ruth was given the leading role in John Alden Carpenter's ballet, The Birthday of the Infanta, presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, later in Manhattan and other U. S. cities. Engagements and prestige came fast. She was premiére danseuse of the Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago...
...dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time! I don't think we were expected before 8:30 or 9 o'clock!" For his nose he was given $3,000; for her face Mrs. Swope got half as much...
...Chicago's forte is research and post-graduate work. Half its graduates go forth as preachers and pedagogs; 119 of them have become college presidents. Last week University of Chicago students voted the Bible their Favorite Book. More than 40% of the enrolment are graduate students. President Hutchins says: "A University is not primarily for social contacts. You can get those at any country club...