Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Of all the dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The...
¶ Addressing the 1917 Club, onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald said in London last week: "The sympathy we Laborites feel isn't sycophancy at all. Those of us who have had the great pleasure of knowing the King personally, feel, at a moment like this, how extraordinarily...
But this cosmopolitan atmosphere was no surprise to Rector Ray's congregation. Since the church was founded by Dr. George Hendrick Houghton it has been a tradition that people come to services there from all walks of life, all races and creeds. Rector Ray is the third rector at...
Brattle Street is busy today, and the elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those...
The Wild Duck. Before Shaw, Ibsen was the mightiest of modern playwrights. He learned about life in an apothecary's shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he...