Word: lenten
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...Leaves. A vagrant project, of the type that annually prowls unheralded into a vacant theatre during the Lenten season of depression and low rentals, appeared under this curious cognomen. It told how women will do anything for clothes. Two in particular had only a paltry $40,000 income and longed to spend it all on evening wraps. They both got into difficulties, gave their husbands opportunity for angry exit. It was one of those high-society plays, written (by Harry Chapman Ford) in the best manner of burlesque and acted even beyond that inexpensive level. There have been...
...Coolidge opened a series of Lenten musicals in the East Room. Rachmaninoff was the first attraction...
Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, in his Lenten pastoral, threatened to refuse holy communion to women not modestly dressed. "The tradition that Irish women are modest must be maintained...
Channing Pollock has already received $300,000 royalties from the various companies playing his popular hit, The Fool, which was advertised as " the Lenten play." By the time all the road companies have completed their barnstorming he expects to have made...
Royalties derived from "the Lenten play...