Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last week, a stocky 93-year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech-Nut v. Beechnut. P. Lorillard...
Died. Baron Auguste Goffinet, faithful friend and guardian of the late mad Empress Charlotte (TIME, Jan. 31) ; onetime secretary of Belgian King Leopold II; in Brussels. He said: "Leopold was right when he told me years ago, 'Empress Charlotte is to bury us all except yourself...
...called "little" theatres operate on several principles-to encourage playwrights, to develop actors, to please an audience, to absorb the self-expressive energies of a community. The Provincetown Players were founded by the late George Cram Cook on premises including all these principles. Some results: the bringing-to-light of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Actor Charles Gilpin, Stage-Designer Robert Edmund Jones...
...ROAD TO THE TEMPLE-Susan Glaspell-Stokes ($3). Biography of the late George Cram Cook, founder of the Provincetown Players, the man behind the scenes of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and many another whose name is better known to the wide world than "Jig" Cook...
...never did a man himself come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book...