Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revere over their courses again, was much better costumed and much less attended. It is admitted that a man might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have...
...First, of course, there is the theatre to fill," he said. "With that in mind we go about to secure the artists we want. We then commission certain authors to submit scenarios for the theatre. The next step is to get a dance director, then a person to lay out the dialogue...
...ever make love to a person of the same...
...reasons for his writing about twins in these plays and others, it was a fortunate compulsion. Twins, are among the most engrossing of human phenomena. Twins are principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with...
Wall Street men were amazed that so large and distinguished a person as Mr. Barron should allow himself to receive so large a pat on the back in his own journal. What was the excuse for the story? It was an important excuse-a tremendous excuse. Mr. Barron, in his "foregoing statements," had said...