Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Krutch, in an article in the current Nation, inspired by the performance-of "The Master Builder" in New York, points out that Ibsen in his later plays worked under the rule. "My business is to ask questions, not to answer them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
...quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides its own; art, religion, education; in short, the general tenor of life, should be closed to its influence. Someone--either Mr. Potash or Mr. Perlmutter--once said that the golden rule was "business before pleasure". The aphorism could be expanded to "business before, perhaps after, but certainly not with, pleasure," he dollar kings should have the grace to leave their financial acumen outside of the church, the schoolhouse, the theatre, and the drawing room...
...Wild West show on the spot. He always called her "Missie" and there was no written contract between them. They toured Europe. She hunted deer with the Emperor of Austria; won a running-deer shoot from Grand Duke Michael of Russia for $350. At an exhibition in England, five ruling monarchs were present. A man who was to rule as Wilhelm II of Germany, expressed a desire to have the ash removed from his cigaret by a bullet. Annie Oakley obliged. Queen Victoria sent her a signed photograph. Prince Edward (VII) of Wales presented her on the grounds...
...right to feel exactly as it does, but colleges, like gentlemen do not obtrude when the feeling is not congenial. The Board of Athletic Control has felt that, and we believe that it represents the unanimous opinion of Princeton men that Princeton does not make an exception to this rule of colleges and of gentlemen...
After nearly three hundred years Harvard still turns out ministers in large numbers, though they are hardly the sort of ministers, as a rule, that would appeal to the early, Puritan theocrats...