Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy of providing employment for students in the University the whole year through, W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment, has announced his plans for securing lucrative positions for men wishing them for the coming summer. The list of opportunities embraces many fields, including such positions as life guards, companions, and tutors...
...many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because he possessed that most delicious of all hungers, an unsurfeitable desire to gorge his mind upon facts. His mother kept for her last child a name that had never belonged...
Paradise. In a small Ohio town, life was miserable for Winnie Elder; her family hated her because she was not married. Frantic, she went to New York. Proudly she returned in some months with the body of her husband in a coffin. An inquisitive aunt nosed out the news it was not her husband, but a body she bought at the morgue. Some potent playing by Lillian Foster did not suffice to make a rigidly effective whole...
There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing chorus, make The White Eagle satisfactory...