Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all due gratitude for Mr. Frankau's tribute the more remarkable as coming from a visiting lecturer, which genus usually excells in destructive criticism most theatregoers would question the essential truth of his remarks. Last season Miss Edua Best appearing with Cyril Maude in an Arlen concoction, "These Charming People," demonstrated to the delight of hundreds the undeniable ability of at least one English actress. Her forte was, true enough, light comedy, but it was done with much more finesse than is customary over here. But, flvolous though the type is, it is immensely entertaining. The American playgoer might...
...Scott and Smith finalists will dispute for the championship on Friday evening, January 14, in Langdell Center of the Harvard Law School. A question of suretyship entitled the "Credential Surety Company of Amesburg versus the Fidelity Bonding Company" will he debated in the manner of a regular legal trial. Three justices from federal or state courts will preside at this final trial, and will give the decision...
...Resolved: That this house favors the revision of the Versailles Treaty in respect to the war guilt of the Central Powers" was the question before the house in the Living Room of the Union. Speaking in defense of this motion, Professor Barnes presented an unanswerable case, and so carried his audience along that at the close of his speech C. P. Wright 1G rose and moved that there be no vote on the question. This motion was seconded, but defeated by 75 to 50, and the subsequent poll supported Professor Barnes...
...present trend means that our future population will be produced from the lower social and economic groups. The question much discussed by eugenic experts and by economists at present is whether this shift in racial stock will make any difference in the quality of the people of the next generation. It revives the old issue of the comparative influence of environment and heredity...
...three acts the audience and the authors worry themselves with the question, "Will Tommy get her?", and it takes the combined efforts of his rival Bernard, politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight...