Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...Newark; will get current from hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery to explain to Congress and to the voters the powerman's attitude...
Tenth Avenue. Before the World War broke them up, the Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
...have been written about her. What Colonel Lindbergh did and said at his various receptions was fogged in a cloud of superlatives and oratory. Mediocre speeches, inane songs* and wretched poetry shadowed him. But the fact remains that the newspapers have made an entire country as small and closely knit as a village. Usually it is the village bad boys and girls-erring corset salesmen, twisted sex victims, brawling cinema actors and actresses-who make the rest of the villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show...
Regarding the incident from a more personal viewpoint, it acquires an especial significance for Princeton and Harvard. Temporarily sundered in competition on the athletic field, the two universities are still in harmonious intellectual accord. In the most fitting and proper of all ties, they are still firmly knit together. They are still side by side in their common aim of fulfilling the advance and enlightenment of the nation and the world...