Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George White's Scandals. Producer White has often been regarded as a reckless exponent of exposure, his entertainments as lowly though attractive limboes. As he grows older, Producer White grows cautious. The thigh is his limit now and the Scandals,* though not wholly civilized, are this year less natural and rugged in their charms, more universal in appeal. What is tuneful is combined with what is funny, what is stimulating is added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic...
...Pennington, a little older* than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus...
...Wisconsin conservation commission had appointed John La Roque, a half-breed (Chippewa-French) several years older than Calvin Coolidge, to be the official Coolidge fishing guide. Newsgatherers, barred from the damp fastnesses of the Cedar Island estate by iron gates and soldiers, got hold of Guide La Roque and questioned him. Thus spoke...
...control" and "human stock" fell harshly on the ears of Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland. He promptly seized an occasion to set forth the traditional view of his Church. Said he, to a graduating class of nurses at the Charity Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born...
...care for 240 more. The building will comprise three main parts the entrance with a foyer hall and Triangle Club offices and clubrooms, the auditorium, and the back stage theatrical workshop. The architecture of the interior will be of the Elizabethan period, while the exterior will harmonize with the older buildings on the campus...