Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Climax of the celebration was the pageant "The Making of Nebraska" at Ak-Sar-Ben field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled...
...hopes of Hoovercrats of holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it had been since last November when some 160,000 voters in Virginia supported men who approved of John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and intimate friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...work for the Democracy in 1928; indeed, this stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have rankled a suspicion of Mr. Raskob's millions. Men who voted for William Jennings Bryan could not easily accustom themselves to the Wall Street aspect of the Raskobian democracy, savoring of the Cross of Gold, fat money bags and the stockmarket...
Broken Dishes. Playwright Martin Flavin is lucky in the men chosen to play his heroes. His plays do not need bolstering, but The Criminal Code, one of the most pungent of the season's hits, is undeniably better for the presence of the virtuoso Arthur Byron, and Broken Dishes would certainly suffer by the removal of Donald Meek. It is the venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry...
...Michael and St. George. Tonight I speak of-if I may call it so-the most enviable Order of the Victoria Cross, the most democratic and at the same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their own peril, and having done it, shut up like an oyster...