Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned girl", with all that she stands for in sweetness, modesty, and innocence, in danger of becoming extinct? Or was she really no better nor worse than the "up-to-date" girl -- who, in turn, will become "the old-fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack...
...Boston Herald has brought to light by the publication of the results of some recent investigations, the unfortunate plight of many disabled veterans of the war. There are now, so the investigation shows, some 83,000 men, suffering from the effects of wounds or from injuries to their health brought on by their service in the army. Some of these men are in federal hospitals, others are paying for treatment from their own resources, many are in extreme need. The only hope of these last lies in getting their war risk insurance paid to them, and this, because...
...graduate student at the University 1919-20; and made a tremendous hit on the tour just completed by the Workshop. "A comedy which deserves a future" was the comment of one paper; "A play with a real punch" the praise of another; while the New York Herald said that this production "turned the Harvard audience Crimson with laughter...
...Philip Hale, in reviewing for the Boston Herald, Ben Ami's performance in "Samson and Delilah" at the Wilbur, regrets that Ben-Ami did not have a better play. He complains of the theatricalness of many of the scenes and of the general lack of skill in the treatment of the theme. Most of his criticism is true enough; yet We felt at the time and do now that Ben-Ami would have had trouble to have found another vehicle so admirably suited to his talents in many respects as is this work Sven Lange...
...vice, the stigma of which the ignorant seek to smear across our scutcheon. But the world knows what is written beneath in letters of gold. We cannot add a cubit to our moral stature by yearning to be like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among...