Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cercle Francaise and in consideration of its reception then and its general excellence as a comedy they are planning to give-it again. The play is in three acts and calls for 11 characters, six male and five female. Monsieur Perrin will again direct the production A very modern theme runs throughout and, as the last line says, as a comedy it is a real "bolte a surpriges" The complicated matrimonial connections of the characters furnishes a rather amusing plot with an unusual and unexpected denouement...
...Counsel were Messrs. Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins; Messrs. Carter, Ledyard & Milburn.*All these materials are still used in the head of the modern safety match...
...Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...
...Even though the present Beck Hall building is to give way to a modern structure the University aspect will not be entirely effaced. It is proposed to provide a permanent home for the Harvard Alumni in a spot happily situated directly across from the home of the undergraduate, the Harvard Union. Here Harvard men connected in some way with the University may make their home in company with their families and enjoy the double advantage of residing in close proximity to their alma matter. At the same time enjoying the conveniences and appurtenances of a first class modern building...
...large down-town department store has offered to open a branch of its Bos- ton store in the new building, thus enabling residents and their families added facility and comfort in their shopping. In the modern Beck Hall families may receive their friends in an atmosphere that will in every way harmonize with the University atmosphere without the hustle and discomfort attached as at present to quarters provided in Boston. It has even further been proposed to construct in the building a large assembly and banquet hall where graduates may meet for any social function no matter how large, furnishing...