Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stewart's big face burned crimson. ". . . I say you have no right!" he shouted. "I don't mean to be insulted and I shall leave this room instantly if this goes on?...
...fame who have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny from being sentenced merely because, in other and more confused times than these, he thought and acted other than you think...
Persuaded by his skilled publicity, Sadie Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added...
...technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life, a one-acter, Bound East for Cardiff. Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan, then editors of the rascally Smart Set, accepted three plays for publication. Critic Nathan, notorious, noisy, can always say, truthfully, he recognized the good wine of genius before the grape was ripe. He still ballyhoos O'Neill frantically...
...sharp split. One need only name the War Memorial controversy which is still raging or the objections raised a few years ago when the new Business Schoool group was undertaken. Ordinarily, perhaps, the raising of a new building is purely a practical matter: a need exists for a building, say a new lecture hall, and the building is put up without dissent. It is when the practical clashes with an ideal, or with that immaterial substance known as sentiment that there arises disagreement, and sometimes bitter controversy...