Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
Quarters for the football teams are being built on the sides of the Stadium under the seats, and will be ready for use during the game tomorrow, if work at present under way can be completed in time. The new quarters will be provided with hot and cold water and will be reached through openings at the center of the east and west sides of the Stadium...
...White House breakfast season was inaugurated when 16 tried and true Republicans trooped into the family dining-room behind President Coolidge at eight o'clock to eat cantaloupe, oatmeal, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, maple syrup, sausage, toast, and take their choice of milk, tea or coffee. The President talked with vim about business and weather conditions, G.O.P. prospects and the World's Series. Most of the guests were members of the Republican National Committee and Chairman William Morgan Butler thereof sat on the right hand of the President. But "Coolidge for 1928" talk was conspicuously suppressed...
...story is told of two daughters, one frozen by the memories of a deceased brutal father; the other warmed by the hot blood of his inheritance. The latter increases the world's population by one surreptitiously but serenely. The former is unnaturally intent on nothing but good works. Both, finally, are attracted by an aggressive labor leader. Miss Ferguson is lovely but not always lucid as the looser sister. The best performance of the play is Nance O'Neil's. She portrays the mother, bloody but unbowed after many years of connubial fireworks with the barbaric father...
...believe) the only undergraduate in Harvard University who knows who cut down your tree. The reason for my previous anonymity must be clear to you, for at the disclosure of my name, the guilty parties would be hot upon my trail...