Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I turned page 14 of TIME, April 16, and saw the smiling face of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst with her first-born in her arms, it recalled the days when this lady led the mob of wild, dissatisfied, would-be unsexed women who thought they wanted the franchise. What a different facial expression then and now, it is evident that she has got what she really desired: Motherhood; Finis can now be written to her political activities...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
...building comparatively young, as Harvard buildings go, and entirely outside the hallowed precincts of the Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live...
...Jewish player. There are plenty of Italians, Swedes, Irishmen in baseball-few Jews. Critics have pointed out that a Jewish star on a New York team would pack in thousands of new spectators at every game. And now, on the bright turf in front of them, the people saw a Jew begin his career-Andy Cohen, second baseman, picked from the minor leagues to take the place of the famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season, had driven in the tying and winning runs with a two bagger against the left...
...play-goers a half-century later, of whom one, Samuel Pepys, called it "A most excellent play, the best, 1 think, I ever saw...