Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most New Yorkers, she is for modifying Prohibition. She is "sporting" and hearty. She has said: "Politics seems to me to be like a game of college football," and, "When I play tennis and lose, I make it a point to get to the net first to congratulate my opponent." She is so charming that James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried...
More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
...play, poetry-is "repose in stimulation," and adds deeper meanings to the usual activities of life. The fullness of life depends upon the richness of its meanings, meanings can only be expressed in symbols, and symbols are province...
Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
...mayor, pleased, told his chauffeur to go out and get a gold key to the city. This done, Mayor Schwab solemnly said: "I present this key as a mark of esteem from Buffalo and hope, Mr. Belasco, that you will return here countless times with premieres of your matchless plays." Solemnly, Producer Belasco answered: "It is always a pleasure to come to Buffalo with new attractions. Your citizens are most critical and an opening night here tells me immediately whether or not my play is a success...