Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem is then posed as to whether the girl could live happily with her Russian in his own striving milieu, minus Claridge's and cabriolets. The stolid Slav does not think so, plods off alone. These platitudinous doings are described as "the first play to come out of Soviet Russia." Actor Leonid Snegov, onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre...
...wealth of our great city does not reside in our district, and that handsomer houses do decorate other parts of our municipality and of our suburbs. That, however, does not diminish one iota the character of our inhabitants or their determination each to fulfill his part in improving the lives of his people and the homes in which they live...
...profession leads me, naturally, to take more interest in the welfare of the Freshmen at Harvard than in the fortunes of the other classes, but I cannot help thinking that if one class is not to live in the Houses the Seniors would get more out of a year's experience together as a class unit than the Freshmen do. They are old enough to desire a little broadening of their social horizons, they know the ropes; they no longer need advice and guidance; and they are on the eve of leaving the college as a class, facing a future...
...prepared by himself over a small open stove, which served at once for heat and cookery. Eating, however, was always treated as a subordinate and incidental business, deserving no fixed time, no dishes, nor the setting of a table. The peasants of the East, the monks of Southern monasteries, live chiefly on bread and fruit, relished with a little wine; and Sophocles, in spite of Cambridge and America, was to the last a peasant and a monk. Such simple nutriments best fitted his constitution, for "they found their acquaintance there...
...artists, art critics or art patrons who do not live in Manhattan are quick to concede that that angular island is the art capital of the U. S. Yet it is to Manhattan that most U. S. art disputes, such as one which lately raged in Philadelphia, are taken for judgment...