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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thinking the theatre". "Among other things," writes the author", monodrama solves one of the most burning problems of contemporary art, namely, the problem of the chilling and paralyzing and distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain behind him; in other words, they will destroy themselves...
...Sirs: I read TIME to my grandchildren. TIME, Oct. 12, Page 6, Column 3, reads : "Exclaimed M. Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the saying foibles one of thing - people meaning the opposite? He meant exactly what he said. You place yourself with those lower classes who enjoy using sarcasm" when they mean "irony...
...admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court by him. TIME Lancaster, Pa. The News-Magazine Oct. 16, 1925. Sirs: In your issue of Oct. 19 you refer to "Chief Justice Putter, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice," on Page 8. You evidently mean Chief Justice White. Edward D. White of Louisiana was both a Confederate veteran and a Roman Catholic. Melville W. Fuller of Illinois was neither. WILLIAM H. KELLER Judge of the Superior Court of Pa. Of course, as Judge Keller points out, the attributes erroneously attached to the name of Chief Jus tice Fuller were...
...went to the Naval War College at Newport, and became a scholar there for two years. He left there to take command instead of applying a remedy. It will mean aid and assistance for our enemies instead of their destruction and downfall. It will mean defeat in war instead of victory...
...year or two years slip by so quickly that unless some outside organization arranges and pushes the work along, students who would like to become acquainted with men of common interests and who realize the value of discussion gatherings, are unlikely ever to establish these contacts. Discussion groups mean a great deal to graduate students and result in everyone involved making better progress," said Olson in commenting upon the questionnaire...