Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. But then, of course, there isn't one?who so pedantic as to expect it? For here is the delightfully discursive scrivener of The Sun (New York) spattering ink joyously, provocatively and with impartial zeal through the fields of Art, Music, Writing, Soldiering, after-dinner Speeching, and his own particular stamping-ground of the Theatre. He sees everything...
Aside from that there isn't much in his history. He was born at Louisville in 1868, attended Yale, and worked for Armour, the packer. He wrote Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, a volume translated into many tongues. He became editor of the Saturday Evening Post...
MEET THE WiFE?Satire on the wife who has two husbands to badger and still isn't quite happy...
...those present at Dr. Straton's recent address could hardly fail to see the significance of that meeting. There was evident an emotional intensity which showed that the students realized the importance of religious problems, but their questions proved their utter helplessness to deal with such problems. Isn't it rather illogical for a student, who in other subjects insists that those to whom he listens shall be of recognized authority, to settle his own attitude toward religion without even trying to find out the truth of the matter? He who has an objection to revealed religion has no right...
...wife not the husband, who is caught in a compromising situation and ruthlessly divorced from husband and child. Then comes the handsome Conway Tearle, sweet and unmarried. He offers her an apartment-to test her. Suddenly she hears that her child is dead and accepts. But the child isn't dead; so she disaccepts. In his embarrassment the handsome Conway marries her. To accentuate the purity of everyone's morals, free-apartment ladies permeate the scene. In the play; the heroine herself became a free-apartment lady for a time. But in the movies, such a thing could...