Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese capital, may spend...
...Boston firm published The Vicar's Daughter "for we need just such simple, pure and cheerful stories here in America, where even the nursery songs are sensational." The modern tale by the same title (copyright presumably expired) at first leads the reader to suspect the vicar of an illegitimate daughter; then it, too, turns out to be a "pure and cheerful" story...
...nerves. In love with Edward's wife, he was frenzied by the young woman across the street, whom he firmly but wretchedly believed to be Edward's daughter by another woman. He convinces everybody but Edward of the scandal, and is astonished at the loyalty of Edward's unperturbed modern women...
Authoress Young wrote in William a delightful and astute account of modern family life. Her present attempt is less successful, the story thin in spite of engaging characters...
Suave denunciation of ancient superstitions and modern propagandas...