Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is something about poverty, at least about poverty as one sees it on the stage, which intensifies personality, throwing into sharp relief often dangerously year to exaggerating each peculiarity of character. This, of course, is meat and drink to the playwright. In "Seventh Heaven", Austin Strong took a handful of such individuals and into the story of their lives injected humor, tradedy, more than a little pathos, a bit of melodrama, and out of it all produced an immensely effective comedy...
While the immensely complicated French Debt settlement was under consideration in Washington, Secretary Mellon announced the conclusion of a very simple agreement similar in kind-but not in intensity. The Latvian Government owes the U. S. for War supplies, and for relief supplies furnished on credit, the sum of $5,132,287.14 To this is added interest amounting to $647,275.62. The Latvian Government agreed to pay $4,562.76 immediately, thereby making the indebtedness a round...
...University of Denver took up her tasks with a feeling of gratitude and relief. Her Chancellor, Dr. Heber R. Harper, had declined an offer to become President of Boston University, with the words: "I am convinced that I ought not to leave the work I have begun here...
...found. He was Cardinal Schulte, Prelate of Cologne, who during the War organized a large relief force to care forthe British and French prisoners in German prison camps. After the Armistice the French Government was at pains to thank him for his ministrations, and almost six years later he was chosen to consecrate on Oct. 4, 1925, the Church of St. Boniface in the East End of London...
...plans provide for a white stone memorial, approximately 12 feet by five on the ground and eight feet high, with three stone steps leading to a cenotaph. On the face will be the striking football group with the words "In Memory of Percy Duncan Haughton" directly underneath the bas-relief. The coach, crouching to the right of the group is to be a portrait sculpture of Haughton. At the base of the monument will be cut the words. "A Memorial to Percy Duncan Haughton." On each end of the cenotaph will be the figure of an athlete, life-size...