Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis the Gold Coast Orchestra broadcasted dance music and specialty numbers. In Milwaukee, Wis., the instrumentalists broadcasted an entire concert. During the performance at Pabst Theatre in the latter city, Harvard graduates joined the members on the stage to sing "Fair Harvard...
...Please! From that sad wreck, the once scintillant Charlot's Revue, they have salvaged two treasures: Gertrude Lawrence who enchants the multitudes in Oh, Kay (TIME, Nov. 22) and Beatrice gillie who makes all men laugh in Oh, Please! The latter vehicle is a rickety contraption, muscial comedy, about an actress who invades the home of the President of the Purity League while his wife is on leave of absence. Apparently the Dillingham production executives tossed Miss Lillie the script with its two good songs ( Nicodemus" and "You Know That I Know ) and its feeble lines, and told...
...settled down to a war of propaganda. The encyclical did not scruple to invoke a boojum like "un-Americanism"-which has the power of all nationalist invocations down to "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" and "Yap for the Yaps." In the war of propaganda between Mexico City and Rome the latter is now leading heavily in the U. S. with its two million encyclical letter pamphlets following closely the recently distributed legal indictment of Mexico by William Dameron Guthrie, Roman Catholic President of the Association of the Bar of New York City (TIME, Dec. 13). As the Mexican Government retorts...
...last year, with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, amazed people by demonstrating that a scholar, musician, poet and dramatist can also be a novelist-of-manners in the richest veins of language, wit, philosophy. Galahad, as superbly and warmly humanistic as its predecessor, proves that the latter was no mere tour de force nor a long-polished secret gem, but an inspired creation the like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation." The strength of the irony...
...intended to help students to adjust themselves to the method of college study. The principle is not to lift the burden of work from their shoulders or to compete with the professional tutors and tutoring schools. On the other hand. It is desired that the necessity for the latter be done away with, and that the students learn to study properly...