Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University extends its congratulations and the expression of its gratitude to Dean Pound upon his decision. It is grateful that he is to remain here where the reputation of the Law School has risen with the growing pre-eminence of its Dean. It is grateful that Dean Pound is not to abandon the work which he undertook nine years ago, even in the face of so advantageous and weighty an offer...
...Adopted a resolution directing the Secretary of War to restore the Robert E. Lee Mansion in Arlington Cemetery as nearly as possible to its pre-Civil War state. (Went to Senate...
...could have been more simple, more dignified and more sane than certain speeches that Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a fortnight ago in Montreal. She told crowded houses all about the Labor movement in Britain. She explained the uphill fight of the pre-Labor Government period, the inner frictions of the Labor Cabinet and what is now being done...
...Mangan, an enthusiastic an energetic experimenter, indicates something of the range of his work in two sharply contrasting poems: "Disoriented", sapphics in which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom of new, and a nervous presentation of story conspicuously modern. Last of all, John Marshall in "Poem", curiously classic and free of tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because...
...Katinka" attempts to provide the atmosphere of a pre-war St. Petersburg restaurant. George Kosloff, formerly a noted restaurant manager in both Kiev and Constantinople, is in charge, and it is rumored that among his assistants are several figures formerly prominent at the Court of St. Petersburg, who are now emigres in America. An orchestra under the direction of Teodsy Riesen entertains the clientele with typical Russian music, in a room with mural decorations done in the best manner of Nicholas Haritonov prominent Russian artist...