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...Robert Warwick, et al.) revived as their first production this play of the yeasty '90's. As everyone over 40 knows and everyone who has ever attended a course on the drama can explain, this was a slashing play. Mrs. Dane was a fallen woman, and she lied about it???to preserve her place in suburban London society and to keep the young squib whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went without saying in the '90's, until Playwright Henry Arthur Jones said several things...
...other expeditions were active in Palestine, representing seven nations, but their reports were scant. Sir Flinders Petrie, aged 74, and for decades an outstanding Egyptologist, transferred his attention to southern Palestine?"Egypt over the border," he called it??? where he thought he might find the origins of the Badarian culture in Egypt...
...animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it???language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There...
This time it was a matter of the budget. At the bill's first two readings the Deputies had cut, slashed and patched it???over-riding the demands of the Government a dozen times. Vice Premier Bartel, twittering, rushed out to Marshal Pilsudski's suburban home for advice...
...could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it???if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it???and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Lincoln penned those lines in a letter to Greeley...