Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, after receiving a large gold key to the city and a gold badge signifying life membership in the Louisiana Jockey Club, Mayor Walker made his farewell address: "Ladies and gentlemen of New Orleans and surrounding cities, hamlets, villages, towns and states, I was never quite so thrilled in my life...
Last week Mr. Roosevelt squared off at life afresh and made an announcement. He could get along without his crutches now, he said, though he still needs two canes. He resigned from other companies and from the American Construction council-on which he had served since 1923 is a sort of chief morale officer to the building trades-to devote himself fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign...
Maya is a series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine...
...Madison was in mild excitement, half the town accusing me of undermining the sanctity of family life. I, therefore, refused to approach delicate topics in an hysterical atmosphere unsuited to their discussion, but nonetheless stuck to my subject. The meeting was an enormous success...
...That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee...