Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican regiments have been muttering and boiling like an angry sea. The spectre of the League of Nations poked its head over the trees and immediately the President was besieged with requests to stick his head in the sand. Whether he was right or wrong in believing that he saw the people's faces turned toward Europe, for him to play ostrich now would be ludicrous. Hence Mr. Harding, ungratefully locking the politicians in the kitchen, steadfastly proposes to carry his cause to the people during the summer...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
Graduated from Annapolis in 1877, Admiral Benson saw 47 years of active service before retiring in 1919. He was promoted to ensign in 1881 and from then until the outbreak of the war his promotion was steady. In 1915 he was made a rear-admiral and was appointed chief of naval operations. After his retirement in 1919 he was made chairman of the United States Shipping Board and in 1921 was appointed a commissioner on the Shipping Board by President Harding...
...Turning my eyes in another direction, I saw an old, white-haired ephemary walking all alone on another leaf, talking to himself. As this monologue seemed to me of interest, I wrote it down...
...real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading role, gives, according to the critics, a notable performance. Heywood Broun: "We saw one of the finest performances the American theatre has known in our time." Percy Hammond: "Nice, rough, nursery stuff, calculated to charm the sophisticated drama lover who wishes to be made a child again just for tonight...