Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madame Alla Nazimova is as much concerned with the progress of her acting as the young amateur. Learning that we had seen the performance of the night before as well as that night's, she asked us which one we considered, the better. We finally remarked, after a natural hesitation, on the tenseness which we had noticed even more that evening. (In fact, the air seemed to vibrate with the suppressed emotion.) Nazimova also considered the performance that night of Ibsen's "Ghosts" more polished, for as she explained, there had been a rehearsal, she assured us, was much more...
...have seen this ceremony performed hundreds of times. I have not witnessed a single case in which the victim uttered a word of resistance or complaint. This punishment was legal and considered a part of army discipline...
...occasion I have seen a military officer, in full uniform and commission, a second lieutenant, beaten in the same fashion but without music and formality in the main corridor of the infantry gate of the great historic barracks of army headquarters of Aleppo', Northern Syria, by the direct order and in the personal presence of the Brigadier General, Ahmed Shevkey Pasha...
...ahead of time, went out to the Little White House for Sunday dinner, then unburdened himself to newshawks. If he and his committee were to get any credit for a budget cut, he, not the President, must spring the surprise on the public. Not yet having seen the President's figures, he announced that he was going to aim to cut the deficit for fiscal 1937 to not over $500,000,000, which would entail a budget cut of $3,000,000,000, or six times as much as the President was reported to hope for. Congressmen cannot...
...Having seen a good deal of the world, she is convinced that it must change. The new social order, she says, will invoice government control of utilities, strict banking laws, and very much improved relations between labor and capital. The League of Nations should be developed into a United States of the World, the nations bearing the same political and economic relations to each other as do our sovereign states...