Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Muckraking in the Augean stables of U. S. politics was at its height in the day of Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the phrase. But it still goes on and there is always a man with a hoe, a gentleman with a duster or a lady with a new broom to do what by definition is an endless job. Muckraking Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles...
...consequence of war, revolution, inflation, and payment of debts. It has been willed. In all essentials it is the product of the deliberate work of the leaders of the proletariat." Laborers will not like his diagnosis of the cause of unemployment: "Unemployment stands everywhere in exact proportion to the height of the political wage-tariffs. . . . In Russia, Japan. China, and India there is no lack of work, because there are no luxury wages." Many a disputatious citizen will take umbrage at: "One has only to glance at the figures in meetings, public-houses, processions, and riots; one way or another...
...Three performances will be given at the club house before the trip, and one in Boston at the Repertory Theatre after the trip. Two performances will be given at Hot Springs, both in the theatre of the famous Homestead Hotel. The show will arrive at Hot Springs at the height of the spring resort season there...
...Height, 6 ft. 3 in. Weight, about 200 lb. Form, very erect; unusually long limbs, big hands, feet and joints; slightly sunken chest; large head (26⅞ in. around...
...first stirrings of good taste to U. S. musicomedies. In the antique section of the show there were neither settings nor costumes of the important commedia dell' arte. Most important of all there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered the stage. Nor was there any exhibit to remind spectators of the painfully accurate productions of the late David Belasco. The entire modern school...