Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begin with, we were accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
FIELD OF HONOR-Donn Byrne-Century ($2.50). That politics could sever a young married couple is possible but not probable in our times. The late Donn Byrne, like most romanticists, was driven into the past to make his thesis believable. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McCarthy Dillon lived in the Ireland of Napoleon's day. When Garrett announced that duty called him to the aid of England's Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Dillon declared that she would have none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless...
...best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment as trite as "darling." And as they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from their hillside lodgings, move on to Lausanne where there are hospitals, gaze at each other in torment by the deathbed of Catharine, their tiny shapes on the vast landscape are expressive of the pity, beauty and doom of mankind...
...military rule and the shortness of the Army's stay. Virtually the only means of contact between the men of the two institutions is that afforded by the welcoming committee. Those in charge of this years group have wisely planned for an unusually large committee, a provision which should make for much greater informality and flexibility than the old plan of assigning but a few men to do the honors of the Yard...
...values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle in the popular estimate to the development of those attributes that make the "mixer...