Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theater. Walter Hampden, has already done successful battle with Shakespeare, Then and Browning and departed for other regions. Eva in Gallienne, leader of the New York Civic Repertory Theater, sill touches the tragic depths at the Hollis, and to descend a moment from the sublime, last night saw the opening of Able's Irish Rose with the "original New York company". Last but probably most important on the list comes the Gilbert and Sullivan revival which will share interest with the coming finals after this week...
...Witness. Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands. She chatted with convicts, and followed the trails so many of them have hacked in vain through the jungle. Everything she saw was evidence of the demoded prison conditions that a twentieth century government tolerates...
Figures, figures; they are what the public is always hearing about Mr. Rockefeller. ROCKEFELLER GIVES A MILLION. Every U. S. reader has seen that headline. Last week, no exception, saw the announcement of the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, listing an expenditure of $1,223,124 "Amazing" said the public as it turned the page, failing to comprehend the figure in the light of an item in the world's broadest educational program. But, rare is the educator or the scientist who has not, or does not hope to be, aided by this program...
Stampeding, snake-dancing. The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sidewalks of New York, the steam-roller--all the accouterments of the Great Deadlock of 1924 found their way into New Lecture Hall for two evenings, and Harvard saw a convention that proved to be a remarkable facsimile of the Democratic meeting four years ago. Not only in the superficial aspects of cheering delegates and persistent, singing did the gathering at Cambridge resemble its national predecessor; but, even as the party was obliged to compromise in 1924, so did the mark convention compromise last evening...
Bitterly criticized for procrastination, Houston saw no reason for having two bites at one cherry, and proved his strategy by routing General Santa Anna, whose army outnumbered the Texans...