Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Hatters. Neither very funny nor very exciting, this slangy little mystery farce was wafted quietly into a theatre by a draught from the wings when someone left the stage door open to the lazy mid-spring airs of Broadway. It summarizes the doings of two second story men who become inmates in a boobyhatch so that they can practice their profession without legal interruption...
...approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic state has changed, when they are again aware of the outside world and the need of adjustment to it, do patients remember how they look. Interest in beauty aids is probably a manifestation rather...
Last fortnight, Lady Mary hovered over the landing field at Cape Town, almost afraid to come down and hear that her rival had reached London and the record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical...
...this mausoleum, last week, there stood a throng of silent persons. These were relatives of the late Caruso, including his widow Dorothy; come to pay homage to the greatest of their clan. Soon they knelt in an attitude of prayer before the casket. Mrs. Caruso left the crypt, leading by the hand her daughter Gloria II, who was weeping...
...builds his foundation upon the basis of generally accepted scientifically demonstratable truths. To bridge the charm between philosophy and religion, one must, however, as Mr. Spaulding points out, take flight from the solid earth, and to pronounce upon the success with which he had done this must be left to the individual reader. Dr. Brown's volume "Beliefs That Matter," is on the other hand written purely from the standpoint of Christian theology. With the subtitle, "A Theology For Laymen," it contains, for example, subchapters on "The Lost Sense of Sin and What to Do About It," and "What...