Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when pistols were fired up chimneys, when statues were painted, when free speech was exercised, are now no more, thanks to the hearty co-operation of the Lampoon and to a less degree of the CRIMSON. We of this office are only human and sometimes wish that someone would play with a fire extinguisher or do something spectacular in order that ancient and long-standing statues might be put to use. We have hoped in vain, and in fear of premature age through inactivity I have resigned...
...these things play a large part in the strikers' list of grievances but I think I may safely say that there is a large measure of personal feeling among the men. They feel that they are more than white collar workers and should be thought of as such. Every man is confident of his ability to take his place behind any A & P counter in the country and hold...
...London Stock exchange, since the boom of seven years ago, has been as quiet as an untenanted playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...
...York, the effect of the Courtaulds melon was less extravagant. On the Curb Exchange, Courtaulds rose from 38½ to 42½; the next day was a U. S. holiday so that Manhattan brokers could sit and watch the play that was going on in Throgmorton Street. They whispered their applause over whiskey and soda; then, on the next morning, they took their profits from the rise...
...killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told his story to the court; after that he sat listening; acute observers noted that he often pared his finger nails. The brothers and sisters of Alma Gatlin supported her contention that, in point of fact; Mrs. Petty had killed their father in self defense...