Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before us are two memorials to the vanished art. The Comic and Humorous Reciter, edited by Ernest Pertwee and published by Routledge, of London, and an American product, My Recitations, selected by Cora Urquhart Potter, published by Lippincott. Dipping into them revives odd memories ? lambrequins and dadoes ? gilded rolling-pins, dudes, croquet, the high-wheel bicycle, the game of Boston ? a departed...
...triangle, and the problem as to whether a single miscue should ruin a woman's career. For some reason takes its place with the horde of "competent" novels of the present?neither good enough to shout about or bad enough to damn?capable workmanship in evidence throughout, but the product tastes lukewarm...
What Shall Children Be Told About War? Education has always consisted of an alloy of education and propaganda; and there is no evidence that more scientific methods have produced a purer product. At a recent conference of Congregationalists in Massachusettes, a resolution was proposed looking to the education of children in the sinfulness " of attempting to settle international disputes by means of war." There was apparently a good deal of discussion as to the proper form of words and the convention refused to resolve that children should be brought up " to the idea of the futility and wrong...
...celebration for which the Council refused to provide the desired funds could hardly be called a spontaneous product of the people. The mayor solicited contributions and placed the orders: his right to be the star in his own show is undeniable. He waited with approved technique to make his impressive entrance after the chorus had done admiring the new house. A fanfare of bugles was a most fitting announcement of this "greatest" of mayors and most appropriate was the brass-buttoned band of policemen playing "Hall to the chief". His opening speech so stirred the Police Glee Club that they...
...conservative by nature, I believe, but intellectually a radical, his life has been led among radicals. " Politics," he will tell you now, "have nothing whatever to do with letters." For that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless as a revival meeting. There, however, one does hear good conversation. It is one of the few places I know where...