Word: jo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lcud Speaker. The New Play-wrights-John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Francis Faragoh., Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe-impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn. Here, at old Bim's, now the 52nd Street Theatre, they propose to experiment with those radical dramatic forms of whose marketability the commercial producers are suspicious...
...call "games". Rather he talks first of What the team did or did not do to St. Timothy's last year and how he is sure the boys will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally...
...artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson and Paul Manship were among the buyers...
...common or vulgar type of sox, but something entirely different and revolutionary. To wit:--sox with the name of the wearer's alma mater embroidered, sewn or woven on the sides, where the clock usually runs. Thus, one sits down, adjusts one's trousers, crosses one's legs--and Jo! there is a Yale, Princeton, Michigan or what not man. While the possibilities are interesting in male colleges and universities the real developments will come when the movement spreads to Northampton, Poughkeepsie and coeducational institutions...
...SCHOOL days, SCHOOL days, Dear old GOLDen RULE days! READing, and WRITing and 'RITHmetic, TAUGHT to the TUNE of the HICK'ry stick ! You were my QUEEN in CALico, I was your BASHful BAREfoot beau; You wrote on my slate "I LOVE you, Jo." When WE were a COUPle o' KIDS, kids, kids, kids...