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Word: roles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over against the McNary-Haugen scheme is the position assumed by the Administration. It favors the extension of co-operative marketing for farmers but by farmers. In this school of thought, the only proper role for the Federal Government is to offer advice and disseminate information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief? | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...paste and brass setting to better advantage than in any of their platinum and gilt-edged plays of the early season. The triangle which the play required was an acute-angled isoceles, with Guy Phillips, the lover of the lady in the case, flubbing badly. Mr. Jewett, in the role of the ridiculously stupid and irate husband, was not to be surpassed. His whole stage presence lends itself to the role. Miss Taylor struggled with the incredible role of the lady who chose the greater of two evils, her husband, and won the day for the Repertory...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

Professor G. Diehl's courses in Fine Arts 14G, and 14F., dealing with "The Role of Syria in the Formation and Expansion of Byzantine Art" and "Byzantine Art in the 14th and 15th centuries" will be given on Tuesday and Thursday respectively at 3 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum Lecture Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Courses Announced | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

Moorfield Storey '66 of Boston, and S. de J. Osborne 1G, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, will attack the administration's policy. Mr. Storey has played a very prominent role in the political world. President of the American Bar Association in 1898, he became prominent in the National Civil Service Reform League a few years later. In 1905 he was president of the Anti-Imperialist League. Mr. Storey delivered the God-kin lectures at the University in 1920. He has published a volume treating the question "What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED BY THE DEBATING UNION | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

Honor Be Damned. Again, Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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