Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week went Dr. Wu Chao-chu to present to President Hoover his letter of credence as Chinese Minister (Nationalist Government). Dr. Wu expressed his pleasure at finding as President "a statesman who has intimate personal knowledge of China through long residence in the country and close contact with the people." The new Minister's father, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, represented China in Washington before the 1912 revolution...
Behind a high semicircular counter-like table, a dozen Republicans have sat long and heavily discussing these articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming...
...Workshop' (which takes it name from the number of the course), a dramatic laboratory in which the students' plays are staged, and their faults practically demonstrated. Plays which are this found worthy of public production may be staged again by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which each year-offers one long play and three one-act plays by student authors. The productions of the 'Workshop' have ranged from pure pantomime to the deepest psychological studies, and a single Dramatic Club bill may include a verse drama and a modern social play. To the student of practical play writing, the value...
...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...
...long been predicted by many sports followers that E. L. Casey '20, present mentor of the first-year eleven, may be transferred to the staff of coaches of the University team; and to fill his place, French is considered among the leading possibilities...