Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something of relief to find a play in which scholarship and a sense of beauty are predominant, particularly a play from England, from which domain the deftly decadent effusions of Michael Arlen have this season been most conspicuous. Ashley Dukes, London critic, has written his comedy around a night at an inn, an old time inn, from the shingle of which the title of the play is taken...
...Organize relief units now, along lines indicated by work in California and Japan...
After heaving a sigh of relief, Tut-Ankh-Amen can utter whatever is the Egyptian equivalent for "Thank heaven that's over!" and prepare to expostulate personally with the archaeologists who have been disturbing his rest for two years. There has been singularly little excitement at the news that he is finally to see the light of day. When his tomb was first discovered, front page stories ran riot. Feminine accessories at once took on an Egyptian character which might have made an ancient Egyptian ill but was good enough to satisfy the public. Vaudeville actors and professional funny...
Within the last forty-eight hours a startling piece of intelligence has been circulated in the daily papers which throws the whole football situation in high relief; and with it comes conviction that the graduate's fears may be well founded. Considered in the light of this intelligence, Harvard is degenerate; and, comparing Harvard's attitude toward sport with this other attitude, which is now for the first time plainly stated, Harvard's degeneracy makes any impressive string of victories in football impossible...
...begin, when suddenly the Bishop abandoned his dream, insisting that his diocese should first make good its quota for the missionary work of the Church. Again, in 1923, Bishop Murray yielded local aspirations to world sympathy, and produced from his diocese a supplementary fund of $180,000 for Japanese relief...