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...praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse with a smile, and, if the latter overwhelm them, can still smile--and try again. Delicately, and with a wonderfully sympathetic understanding Mr. Barry reveals to us Maitland White's tragedy--the tragedy of the artist who rejects his calling in favor of marriage and business, and realizes his mistake too late. The fact that his friend Nicholis...

Author: By W. C. J., | Title: BARRY WRITE'S A TRUE CHARACTER COMEDY | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

...detail the ensuing plot with accuracy would take diagrams, a genealogical chart and reams of paper. But here the plot is not exactly of primary importance - the characters overwhelm it with their energy, their eccentricity and, at times, their excessvie gift for lengthy self-analysis. They are the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Season's Leviathan-- A Study of the Passion for Things Present and Things to Come | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...true have these lines been proved that they almost overwhelm; but Mr. Punch does not confine himself to the Kaiser. He foresees the electric railroad engine, dirigibles bombing London (!) the result of woman suffrage (in a cartoon recently apologized for because of Lady Astor's and Lady Rhondda's political successes, the value of the wireless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/19/1922 | See Source »

...nearly 100 years into North and South", said the Reverend A. A. Gilman D.D., President of Boone University at Wuchang, China, when interviewed recently by a representative of the CRIMSON. "It is only that it so happens that the military power, which from the beginning has tried to overwhelm popular attempts to create a modern government, has had its base in the north and has used ignorant northern coolies because it would be impossible to recruit a force against the popular movement in the south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLARES CHINA NOT SECTIONALLY DIVIDED | 4/15/1922 | See Source »

...this goes to press, half of the College is already well on the way to Princeton. By boat, by train, by motor, the Crimson flood is descending on the Tiger to unite this afternoon in one tremendous wave which is to overwhelm the supporters of the Black and Orange. Greatly will the team be aided by this section of Harvard which will be with them in the Palmer Stadium. But besides all the cheering thousands in New Jersey, there will be still others taking no less a share in the great struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE WILL TO VICTORY" | 11/5/1921 | See Source »

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