Word: ken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your department of "Letters"is very interesting, particularly so since your correspondents generally confine themselves to pertinent addenda to news you have previously published. But just why you publish letters such as that over the signature of A. P. Taylor (TIME, Feb. 1) is beyond my ken...
Lieutenant Commander Ken worthy, M. P., renowned for his chronically embarrassing interjections, cried: "The Government has given away something quite valuable." Several honorable gentlemen reproved him and insisted that the Government should not have profited...
...rest is more or less negligible. Mr. Edsall leaps to arms, and proclaims, in a curious metaphor, that the gods of the University are sleeping at the switch. Mr. Doughty writes four pages far above the common ken; Mr. Elliott contributes a story; and there are a few pallid lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling...
...Zebellos, Minister of Foreign Relations in three Argentina Cabinets, will take part in the discussion of International Law. Two. open conferences, conducted on the public forum plan, will be led by William S. Culbertson, Vice Chairman of the Tariff Commission, and the Hon. Philip H. Kerr of London. Mr. Ken attended the Institute last year. The topics of the two conferences will be "Current Foreign Policies as Affected by International Trade and Finance" and "Foreign Relations of the British Empire...
Such an interesting and successful organization as the Cleveland Play-house of Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, is outside his ken. And yet this admirable group of amateurs and semi-professionals has recently concluded a repertory-season including such plays as Candida, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hindle Wakes, Hamlet, presented with skill and intelligence and receiving the unforced support of its audience entirely upon the merits of its productions. The newly organized Theatre Guild of Philadelphia has already scored a distinct success with two Clare Kummer plays, featuring Lola Fisher as a " visiting star." The Bainbridge Players...