Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today Mr. Harding is prepared to draw a deep breath, for Congressional politics will soon drop over the horizon. After a short holiday in Florida he will gather about him the business men of his cabinet and continue to manage the affairs of the nation, untrammeled until a new Congress rises-from the West...
...producing rain in the space of a week they were highly esteemed, and considered as ornaments to their profession. But even the most sanguine of them did not expect to have their prayers answered in ten minutes--unless, perhaps, they had previously noticed a thunder-cloud gathering on the horizon. In the future, however, "rainstorms to order" will be regarded as commonplace...
...critic of literature has advanced to join the army which already exists, a critic from the allied kingdom of the movies. Rudolph Valentino,--actor, artist, dancer, and now author,--has called attention to a different horizon for the novel in an article in the Bookman...
...whole University. It is a serious thing for a man who has lived in the large and free air of a University like this to go on to a professional School that is out of touch with University life and cut off from University privileges. A man's horizon, under such conditions, shuts in, and his profession seems to him a limited and meagre affair, as contrasted with the large freedom and wide interests of undergraduate life. A man who has been, as an undergraduate, a member of a great University ought to go on to a professional school where...
...Bennett told of the difficulties that had to be overcome before the production of Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon", and then went on to discuss Andreyev and "He Who Gets Slapped". At the end he answered a number of questions put to him by his audience...