Word: revelations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain January. Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children. If you can revel for hours in childish winsomeness, even when it is faintly selfconscious, and still long to kiss "the little darling" goodnight before she scampers upstairs to her supper, Captain January was just made for you. The story, which flourished during Elsie Dinsmore's palmy days, is of a sea-tossed waif, rescued and reared by a hungry hearted lighthouse-keeper. Stock villainy and fairy godmotherhood (both well cast) complete the plot. Take the children...
Russia's own literature did little to disped the haze of unreality which hung about the nation. The great novelists painted with minor tones of same colors in which the war correspondents revel; only recently, has anything resmbling a true photograph been discoverable,--queerly enough in the literature of the Revolution...
...last I have read a story of modern society life that is not actually coarse with the grewsome details of an illicit love; at last I have found an author who, with all the opportunity in the world, refuses to revel in blasphemy and obscenity. This does not mean that "The Gay Ones" is fit for wide distribution among the Sunday schools of the country--for there is illicit love, and a dear innocent little girl is born of necessarily bad parents, but it is all told in a "nice" way, with a great deal left to the imagination...
This news is a tremendous relief. It had been feared that the day was definitely past when the licentious burghers of Cambridge could revel in such daring and questionable exhibitions as "Le Tartuffe" and "The Life of Man"; it had even seemed possible that the wild seenes of orgy which had been planned in connection with the coming production of "Jalouse" might have to be postponed until the present demonstration of official prudishness subsided. Now, however, the threatened calamity has been averted. Whatever may be the state of City Hall opinion in the Hub of the Universe, this way-ward...
...Royal Guard on prancing horses curvetting beneath triumphal arches, bands blaring the Marcia Reale, His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, last week entered his loyal City of Fiume. The cannon roared the salute of 21 guns as the King, accompanied by Admiral Thaon de Revel, Minister of Marine, and General of Police de Bono, rode over streets paved with flowers, to the City Hall, where Dr. Grossich, Provincial Governor, made the address of welcome. After four turbulent years Fiume was annexed to Italy...