Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward William Bok: "It became known that one Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of a free night art school which has celebrated its 25th anniversary, was the winner for 1923 of the Philadelphia award ($10,000) presented annually by me to that person who gives Philadelphia the most distinguished service. Previous winners of my award are Leopold Stokowski, orchestra leader, and Dr. Russell H. Conwell, President of Temple University...
...together by a thin thread of actual plot. The beauty of the photography and the turbulence of the action carry it through. George III is pictured as the king "who ever warred with freedom and the free," George Washington is remarkably acted by Arthur Dewey without undue exaggeration; and Samuel Adams and John Hancock are brought forth as the guiding spirits of the Northern Colonies. Paul Revere's ride and the Battle of Lexington are as vivid as screen art can make them. And finally, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the winter spent at Vally Forge picture the indomitable...
...from the argumentative symposium of the day of Plato to the scientific expository symposium of today. It has slowly evolved, passing through such intermediate stages as the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson's time. And there has been likewise a great change in the nature of the subjects dwelt on, and in the atmosphere in which they are treated. In the days of Socrates, philosophy was distilled with the fumes of Hellenic wine, and the asperity of the argument was soothed by the strains of a girl flute player. Eros was discussed, according to Plato's Symposium, until...
Last week, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, famed reformed Jew leader, gave the cause a fresh start by opening a Bahai conference in Manhattan. "The time is come," said he, "when religions should unite . . . The faith that is true is the faith of every man that holds it in truth and that lives it in the spirit...
...Samuel Goldwyn (real name, Samuel Goldfish): "The George H. Doran Co. published a book, Behind the Scenes, written by me. One John Anderson, a critic, wrote as follows in the Literary Review: 'Goldwyn has written one of the funniest books of the season, presumably without intending it.' Anderson cited the following as a particularly fine example of unconscious humor: 'If you can picture a flowering arbour and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding inside of it a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which...