Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke. He had been politely informed that it was not proper to use tobacco before so many ladies. Pickles, sandwiches, coffee, radishes and ice cream were served. With bows and smiles, blue and purple asters were passed to the ladies who had carried the day for the modern form of municipal government. The outcome of the election made round, gallant Manager Hopkins feel as exhilarated as a small boy who, expecting to fail at school, finds he has passed every thing on his report card...
Jubilant over the crowds that had come to Canterbury was the Rt. Rev. Winfrid Oldfield Burrows, Bishop of Chichester, famed in Great Britain for his "modern" methods of popularizing religion. Carefully he had studied the success of medieval miracle plays at Salzburg under the 20th Century Producer Max Reinhardt. Elaborate was the similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music...
Amazed students of modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central...
...permit branch banking throughout the country. If they succeed, it is certain that some of the chains now being created will be converted into branch banking systems. But whether chains or branches eventually come out on top, the developments in the Northwest last week show clearly the tendency of modern banking not only to step outside of municipal boundaries, but to cross state lines. That was where last week's wind was blowing...
...MODERN FAMILY-Ruth Reed- Knopf ($3). In academic circles ideas need not be new to be exciting. Despite some circumlocation, Author Reed, not original, has enough feminist and liberal passion to excite one way or another those who care about The Family. For instance, in a Southern university not 1,000 miles from Dayton, Tenn., the president wrothily returned to Manhattan a copy of this book sent for examination...