Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quincy we are finding it very difficult to play 'Strange Interlude' as it should be done. To begin with, we were accustomed to the small John Golden Theatre in New York, and find a motion picture theatre, which we are forced to use in Quincy, a bad place to put across our lines. Can you imagine shouting the asides of 'Strange Interlude' so as to make them heard in a barn of a theatre, after being accustomed to an auditorium of the most informal sort...
...motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then Sir Esme came back, fetched James Ramsay MacDonald and the historic handshake of the trip took place. Mr. MacDonald introduced his daughter, apple-cheeked Ishbel. In the Red Room, Mrs. Hoover was waiting. President Hoover took his callers to her. Mrs. Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began to chat, joined by Statesman Stimson. President and Prime Minister stood apart, talking earnestly for twelve minutes. Keynote...
...them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend the winter in at Pasadena but got bored there, heard Santa Catalina Island was for sale and bought the whole place...
...opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag was draped in black, his desk piled high with flowers, but the instinctive reaction of editors and public alike was "Who in Germany can take his place?" Said Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts: "The problem of finding a worthy successor to Dr. Stresemann is one of life and death to Germany...
...been pointed out before and it can well be pointed out again that there are several obvious fallacies in the arguments of those who uphold the thesis that the colleges are headed for hell and damnation because the stadiums are packed on autumn Saturday afternoons. In the first place, the only sport about which the undergraduate, at least at Harvard, is even inclined to be irrational, is football, and football extends through about two months of the nine-month college year. Perhaps those alarmists will concede the possibility of a little study being accomplished by the undergraduates in the remaining...