Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like women to meddle in the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See. Such matters are not their concern. The action of one woman, the widow of a man who had important documents, has done much harm already...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...
Geraldine (Pathe). Booth Tarkington, amiable observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...
Spring Is Here. In the spring an old man's fancy turns to musical comedy. Here is the first robin, flying in to music provided by Richard Rodgers. In addition it has intelligent lyrics by Lorenz Hart and a book by that oldtime craftsman, Owen Davis, who makes up with situations what amusement he fails to supply in the conversation. Not the least in importance is its cast: Glenn Hunter, making his musical debut after years in adolescent "drama" roles; Inez Courtney, who has a gift for flip clowning; Charles Ruggles, an able farceur; Lillian Taiz, whose voice...
John Williamson, quiet son of a clergy man, took his first job in Dayton as teacher of public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster...