Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell but the doubtful happiness of "carrying on"--and "There's no discharge in the war," now suffers the vapid appreciation of stock audiences. And the Copley crosses the Styx...
Carried on chiefly by the students of the neutral countries, the campaign to create a better spirit of cooperation and to reconciliate the students of the ex-belligerents, began almost immediately. The C. I. E. Congress at Prague in April 1921 saw the admission as full members of Denmark, England, Finland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland and Yougolavia. During the following three years the spirit in the C. I. E. was completely changed; the controverseries were more or less settled...
Danger. An amendment to the Constitution to make the U. S. a legally Christian country and to authorize punitive and discriminating legislation against people of other religious faiths was penned by William Jennings Bryan before he died, according to his old friend, Playwright Augustus Thomas.* "I saw the actual wording of the amendment," said Playwright Thomas, "and gave it as my opinion that such an amendment, if passed by Congress, might secure sufficient support from Fundamentalist states, south and west, to become ratified...
...since 1922, on the Executive Committee of Presbyterian Alliance since 1921, of the Federal Council of Churches since 1922, member of the Minnesota State Board of Parole since 1915. Honors sit comfortably on his broad brow topped by his wavy grey hair. Fellows at the conference looked at him, saw a well-groomed personage, a man of round and cheery face. Those little wrinkles peeping behind his rimless eyeglasses were of good humor and of study, not of irascibility...
...college up Brattle is broadening. I saw many a maid, and none of them staid, when I visited the Splendid Georgian on my return from the Idlers' mid-winter or early spring or whatsoever production--and they came from Radcliffe. I know because they had escorts and ate very little. The usual female occupant at the evening tables at the Georgian eats very much. "Say, I guess I'll have a chicken salad sanwidge--Yeah, coffee."' No, you can't fill the poor working girl. Yes, I was surprised to see so many young college women in the place...