Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some honor, therefore, is due a detective story which has the greater part of a college in its grip. Discussion of the most appalling examination yields to the universal question of "who killed him?" Mr. Philo Vance to say nothing of his anonymous creator must be gratified in spite of his indifferent pose at the numbers who follow his monthly pursuit of the criminal; and when at last his efforts are crowned with inevitable success, he will have the satisfaction of seeing a distinct loosening of tension in a community not usually distinguished for its interest in anything...
...scarcely for the present generation to judge of the advantages which this community singing will have over the good old tradition of individual stars, but at least it will be safe to say that the job of the biographer will have added difficulties...
...Tragedy has no appeal to me, comedy is my trade, and I intend to stick to that form of drama", asserted Frank Craven, 'who is playing in. "The 19th Hole" at the Hollis Theatre. "I have tried Shakespearean tragedies, and must say that I am not inclined toward them...
...sheer domination having it made into law. Furthermore, the woman politician has just begun her "epidemic of lawmaking" according to Count Keyserling. He paints a gloomy picture of a country reduced to the bondage of minor social laws about which the masculine politician has little or nothing to say. To infer the worse it seems altogether too probable that the inversion of the sexes will place the supposedly stronger ones in the nursery and the kitchen in a few more years...
...many women fall for this very reason. They think that all they have to do is to have a pretty face, get up and say a cute one or two, and then go draw a large salary at the end of the week...