Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Julie Reinhardt, 80, actress; in Manhattan. In her heyday she played with Warfield, Maurice Barrymore, Rose Coghlan, and many other stars. Later she toured the country for woman suffrage, led a certain Victory Ball with Inez Millholland, (oldest and youngest suffragettes). She died in a narrow room not far from Broadway. Said she: "I was with Jane Cowl-bless her-when she starred in A Grand Army...
...emerald rings that had twinkled on that lovely Creole's toes; she dispensed hospitality in the stately Jumel Mansion in old New York, where once was Washington's headquarters; she drove her gay coach-and-four through the gaping streets of Saratoga Springs in the heyday of its glory; she built up a fancy fairy-tale of gentility to account for her origin and bulwarked it with cunning lies and deceit. But she never became really respectable. And who shall blame her? At all events her picture, in all this historic frame, glows astonishingly meteoric and lifelike...
Prohibition now is no more an issue decided and dead than in the heyday of the fight for its adoption. The grave problem of its enforcement has rather tended to indicate that one very important aspect of the question was over-looked in the discussion which preceded the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment. If any question of its desirability remains, common sense calls for a calm and lucid debate. The example which Dr. Butler has set--obviously in defiance of his own best interests--of breaking a restraining silence to utter his honest convictions is one that deserves the respect...
...that we have in New York, at the present, the best native drama America has ever had, the best, as a matter of fact, that exists in any city in the world. Individual acting, perhaps, was better in the old days?but production and direction is now at its heyday. We had hoped that this was true. We had no basis of comparison. Now we know...
...high hopes that the new American merchant marine built under the stress of war would bring back the heyday of American ocean commerce have been severely shaken by the recurrent deficits of the Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans...