Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assurance of a safe balance. Fortunately, the Playgoer can disregard this appeal to his susceptible sympathies. The work they are doing is able to stand on its own merits Sincere, thoughtful acting, simple and suggestive settings, intelligent productions, should make their little theatre on Charles street a Mecca for all who are hopeful for the drama. After all, what are costly costumes worth, when the audience will remark, as someone did t the "Passion Flower". "Good Heavens, does he need such a wide sash to hold up his trousers...
...imposed upon our younger contemporaries, and in order to enjoy the daily hour of play so necessary for a law student, we eagerly set forth today for a game of a uash in the courts so munificently provided for that purpose. We found the door of the Linden Street mecca locked and barred. We then requested the janitor of Randolph to allow us to enter by the tunnel. He informed us sympathetically that the key had been peremptorily se uestered by one Greer, Comptroller of Athletics. We next trundled down to the freshman courts, in the hope that their physic...
...Mecca," the newest extravaganza of Morris Gest, which opened at the Century Theatre in New York on Monday evening, is said to surpass by far his previous lavish spectacles, such as "Chu Chin Chow" and "Aphrodite...
...protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...