Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she was 19 she ran away to join the cast of Reckless Eve when that masterpiece was playing in Little Rock. The Fitches had told her she could take nothing out of their house, so she left wearing two dresses, with her blouse stuffed with trinkets. Reckless Eve got as far as Tulsa where it gasped, flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld...
Last week an article by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, calling upon America to "back up the President" and join the World Court was published; today are printed the critical arguments of another Yale professor. Counsel for Permanent Tacna-Africa Arbitration, and a former Assistant Solicitor in the Department of State, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School analyzes the World Court and attempts to refute the arguments of the proponents of American adherence. The article, published by courtesy of the Yale news, follows...
...light of the fact that the so-called World Court can have but little relation to the problem of peace, the issue as to whether the United States should not "join" it or not can hardly be placed on the ground that peace will thereby either be promoted or retarded. That issue, I believe, is unreal and fanciful. Perhaps we ought to aid any movement that even looks to the judicial settlement or disputes, but when one of the announced inducements for our joining the court is that we would never have to submit a case to it, encouraging...
...Harvard delegation will be led by E. M. Littell '26, who will be glad to give any particulars to men desiring them, between 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock this afternoon at Stoughton 19. Men can join the parade at 2 o'clock tomorrow, at the starting point, the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets...
...Indifference and self-complacency are the largest obstacles a missionary has to overcome. The new spirit of radicalism may include opposition to Christianity, but even that is a great help to our cause; for interest in religion, whether it be evidenced by opposition or not, causes more people to join the ranks of the Christians in China than does indifference. The real characteristic of the student movement is they spirit of inquiry...