Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...
...Dean's office Football, publications, activities of all sorts are bathed in holy light through out the quadrangles of many a famous church school. One studies to get into college so that he may engage in these activities on a large scale and once in this same person studies only that he may remain, and become a Big Man. The constant information that seeps back to the old school about former graduates who are now Big Men in various colleges fans this fire nowhere so violently as in the private preparatory schools...
Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
More formal concerts have a role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time...
Millionaires. A person who has only a million dollars in cash or property is not a genuine millionaire. In the U. S. a genuine millionaire must have an annual income of at least $1,000,000; this means the possession of $20,000,000 (figuring on the basis of a 5% yield). There were 283 U. S. millionaires in 1927, according to the Internal Revenue Bureau, last week...