Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taft. Lorado Taft, prolific Chicago sculptor, spoke in general on "Beauty in American Life," in particular on "My Dream Museum...
...democratic form of government, or rather for the constitutional monarchy as it exists at present under King Boris, but I am opposed to any dictatorship from Left or Right. When I return I shall re-enter political life as a member of the National Liberal Party...
Dewey. "Greatest U. S. philosopher," exponent of what he calls "empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism," Columbia University's Professor John Dewey was voted a life membership in the association, to be conferred on the occasion of his 70th birthday...
...branch of the Communist party] that the Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall be lost. The present policy in Russia is a very deliberate one and is intended not merely to destroy every vestige of Jewishness in Russian Jewish life but also to destroy the most self-conscious element of Russian Jewry-the Zionists. . . . These are the days for protest and condemnation...
...elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband of the blonde he has taken to the mountains. Adolphe Menjou, who talks throughout the picture with a French accent, although in private life his inflection is thoroughly native, makes a suave, satiric portrait out of the role. Best shot: Menjou. exhausted by exercise and mountain air, thumping with his cane on the bedroom door of his inamorata and uttering protests of passion while he eats a sandwich...