Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conventional figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...
...last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing. Nonetheless he stood forth, last week, more clearly than ever as the Strong Man of modern China...
...spray of rosemary." Victorian at heart, she had, years before, rebelled against the fast vulgarity of the military set in India-but since her husband's death she had supported herself and her son: the office, the antique shop, the millinery establishment had made her something of a modern...
When Clive told her he was marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...
...speculations of many a Cheney.* Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...