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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near the apex of the Delta, will hold six or eight persons, while the larger ones near the Hall will hold 12 to 16. The tables will seat from one to three couples and will be placed in the middle of the Delta. Six tables and the two boxes nearest the Hall have been reserved for patronesses...
...period, an idea suggested itself. I saw that one of these silly tests was to be held in the New Lecture Hall at ten o'clock this morning and accordingly, there I appeared shortly after ten armed with several books and a handful of papers. Sitting down in the nearest seat on which lay a bluebook, I took out my papers and began eyeing them half surreptitiously. This failing to attract much notice at first (I found that so many other men in the room were doing the same thing that I was almost inconspicuous) I deliberately took...
...several years Russia has been a law unto itself among all the councils of nations into which it could pry its way. It has blustered to its nearest neighbors. It has blustered to the Lausanne conferees. Yet for all its noise, it has terrorized nobody and made but one commercial acquaintance--England. And now England has sent an ultimatum to call its bluff...
...actors on the modern stage. But they are more than highly polished puppets; they are artists chosen for their ability "to synchronize their own feelings with those of the role." They are asked to portray only those characters whose experiences in some way resemble their own. Indeed, the nearest English equivalent to the Russian wording for acting is the phrase "deep feelings...
...number of Southern-born Negroes living in the North. The best authorities estimate that 250,000 went North in 1915-16. It was a great silent movement, without leadership, or even self-consciousness, which caught at the South like an infectious fever and sucked whole communities away by the nearest railroad. Everyone thought it a war incident that could hot be repeated...