Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Hampden's production of Rostand's extravagant romance was auspicious in two particulars. Its general excellence boded well for the repertory theatre which Mr. Hampden proposes to establish in Manhattan. His own portrayal of the title character offers substantial solace to a new generation of playgoers. Seniors who saw Mansfield in the part these 20 years back compared Hampden's performance not unfavorably...
...York World: "It is easy to use superlatives. One who saw the play at the National [Theatre] last night might use them all with justice...
...would have predicted that Harvard would wait seven years for a chance to celebrate another victory over the Tigers. But seven years made the victory on Saturday all the more magnificent; no words written in quiet retrospect can add luster to such a triumph. But every Harvard man who saw the game will long treasure the picture of a splendid eleven fighting as the under dog, outplaying itself, deter mined to accept nothing but victory" and in the end winning that success which every Harvard man demanded...
...What he said to me afterward was that this speech cost him his self-respect, and yet he saw no way out of it at the time, and if he had to do it over again would have said the same thing. ' If,' he said, 'I had only myself to consider, perhaps I would have had the nerve to say what I really believed and risked defeat. But if I am defeated I am not the only sufferer. It means the defeat of my running mates. It means the loss of control of my party. It means disappointment and loss...
...past week saw ex-Premier George, his wife and daughter at Marion, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washington, Richmond...