Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined the Communist Labor Party. In November, 1919, she defied the police by making a speech at the Oakland Civic Centre. She was arrested and tried. It was not claimed that she had ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money to carry on her legal battle. Last week the Supreme Court...
...This," when inspected, appeared superficially to be only a photograph of a svelt and alluring "redheaded vamp." Alas, her shoulders were a thought too broad, her hips a shade too neat! She was none other than Edward of Wales, snapped en costume while appearing in The Bathroom Door, a farce produced aboard the cruiser Repulse just before she docked at Portsmouth (TIME, Oct. 26) and returned the Prince from his South American tour...
...Here in Boston, you don't get so many out-of-towners, and so the audience is more representative. For this reason, there is none of the 'cutting loss' so characteristic of excursionists. Boston, however, provides as good a 'laughing audience' as you can get. They laugh, but they do not applaud, and perhaps this is why they have their bad reputation. Boston audiences are appreciative, and they are intelligent. The little subtleties are noticed, but they are acknowledged by laughter rather than by applause...
...Barrymore's memoirs were neither rowdy nor pornographic, but the measured attempt of an intelligent man to comment cool-mindedly upon his own career. None of the fustian sentiment, like the smell of an old stage wardrobe-none of the gasconnading, the pomposities, the how-well-I-remember-the-night that clutter most actors' reminiscences-nor yet the blatancy that distinguishes those of certain editors-were discoverable in the suave, faintly amused memories of John Barrymore...
...fact--perhaps not generally known by those who charge us with lack of courtesy--that, with the exception of two of the Yale songs, none of the songs of those colleges which are our opponents on the gridiron are available at any price in band arrangement, and in some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease. On the other hand such Harvard songs as "Our Director" and "Veritas" are standard marches and can be purchased at any time in band arrangement, and In some cases even vocal or piano copies...