Word: labyrinths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lost in a labyrinth of gentle limbs...
...such a manner does Professor Wise avow his intentions of lighting the tortuous labyrinth of dramatic production for the lowly Torchbearer. The book, haphazardly and inappropriately illustrated, is divided into twelve chapters which deal with practically every phase of amateur production, and includes in addition a general directory containing information about available plays for amateur presentation, with bibliographies of the authors--and further still a list of costuming houses in the Middle West...
George V of England: " A royal commission pronounced Buckingham Palace a firetrap with its labyrinth of draughty hallways, inflammable partitions, old-fashioned wiring and heating installations, spoke of it as ' fraught with peril.' The Palace, like all English Government buildings, is not insured...
This is not spoken as a demurrer against the value of such a proceeding. Anything done to straighten the paths through the present labyrinth will be an invaluable service. It was the delay in settling cases which led to an inquiry by Elihn Root and his committee, and then to the formation of the institute. Its aim is not to codify and thus make rigid the common law, but to restate it in terms of the decisions of the highest courts. Even this can hardly be half completed in the ten years which the Carnegie gift will finance. And with...