Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have seen hundreds of these people driven into churches, and with doors locked, set on fire, while troopers open the roof and pick off dozens with rifle shots Starving, and under such circumstances as this yet, they will not beg or accept charity. They are an exceedingly dignified race...
...will be given Tuesday evening; "Martha" on Wednesday afternoon; Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "Pagliacci" on Thursday evening and in addition an original program by Michio Ito, Japanese, dancer; Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" Friday evening; "Faust' Saturday afternoon; "Carmen" Saturday evening. The second week will open with "Martha" on Monday evening; "Pagliacci" Tuesday evening with another Ito dance program; "Faust" Wednesday afternoon;. "The Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "The Abduction from the Seraglio" Thursday evening: "Faust" Friday evening, which has been designated as Harvard Night; "Carmen" Saturday afternoon; "Madame Butterfly" Saturday evening...
...could not refuse a wisp of a girl who asked them to investigate a certain Long Island lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They...
John Sims & Wife come back to a closet flat, under the noise of the elevated, where the bathroom door swings open annoyingly, and the Murphy bed clasps catch on blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave...
...lack of advice from people who understand them and can give new ideals, young people treat sex like a nip of whiskey from a hip flask. . . . Love belongs with open spaces and real loving involves the whole personality...