Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects of a war?" They may be any of a myriad of things. Assume that the principal object is to defend American lives on the seas. Then we must ask, "Shall we set fire to the American mansion?" An answer depends on the answers given several other questions. Will the pig be roasted by burning the house, or burned to ashes? Is it necessary to burn the house or are there less destructive means of getting the pig roasted? How necessary is it to roast...
...scene presents a village on the edge of the Arabian Desert, with a stone altar, and the vestiges of Job's mansion, and both the scenic and lighting effects are unusual. The cast is as follows: Satan, M. Roth '17 Job, W. M. Silverman '18 Bildad, L. S. Levy '17 Zophar, W. Hettleman '19 Eliphaz, J. Auslander '17 Elihu, D. Lewis '16 Voice out of the Whirlwind H. Epstein '16 Choregus, J. Watchmaker...
...thoughts that flow like the Charles River, the feather boa with which Boston can see nothing the matter because "It's the same that she's always worn," "the Unitarian who cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars, and the undergraduate who likewise was "not perceptibly" attending Professor Winthrop's course--these hits will not soon be forgotten. When in addition it can be truly said that the plot,--in even the best of comedies of manners likely...