Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handel, on the other hand, was a very gay type of man, with great spontaneity; a cosmopolitan gentleman who enjoyed life and did not take it too seriously at least not until later in life when he too turned to writing a more religious type of music...
...advocates a further extension of the study of source material in the field of government, where it has already proved successful in a limited degree. This system, he points out, has the disadvantage of not covering very much ground in a limited time, and therefore cannot be expected, at least under present conditions, to displace entirely the more common methods of teaching. But there are so few good lecturers, and stimulating text-books are so scarce, that the study of information at first hand has plenty of room in which to expand...
...Johnston says he doesn't now what he would do without the little woman. The angry politicians, to whom she has refused admittance, reply that they know what they will do with her, and with him too. They mutter that woman's place is not in the home, at least not in that of the Governor. At any event, this struggle of the Praetorian Guards with the senate, despite allegations of the electorial use of intimidation in Chicago, does not signify that the day has come when the superior armed force determines the local government. Bernard Shaw wrote of "Arms...
...Club's fling at the cattle-and-chaps school of histrionics is now over and the campfires on the Brattle Hall stage have died out. The production itself, however,-- "The Chisholm Trail"-- will be remembered as marking the Club's return to, if not a more artistic policy, at least to one which yields larger financial returns. For some reason--possibly because it had a theme worth writing about, possibly because it was a radical departure from recent plays of the Club--"The Chisholm Trail" "caught...
...they never do anything about it. Still it insists on attracting attention because each year in the opinion of experienced observers it far exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with which it is discussed is a testimony that here is the one factor in daily life that is always of unexceptioal subjective interest...