Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap cinema star* as staggering drunk through the Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister, the Queen of Italy, and on my late lamented country, Montenegro. "Although The Merry Widow has been presented as a light opera for over 20 years, I have never until now raised any objection because the character of 'Danilo' has always been...
...fifth proposal, prohibition of participation in successive sports, seems more practical than that of limiting a man to one sport. It eliminates the evil of continuous training, without depriving the versatile athlete unnecessarily of a real enjoyment which he may find in intercollegiate athletic competition. The remaining points merit serious consideration. Harvard might well lead the East in acting along the lines suggested by the Middle West...
While the suffering is now acute, the re-habilitation, after the water recedes, of thousands whose houses have washed away and their livestock drowned presents even a more serious problem. The Red Cross is doing admirable work everywhere. Its personnel and organization are entirely adequate to meet each crisis. What is most needed now is additional money to make its efficiency completed...
...does so with a grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...
Typewriters will cease to jingle on Plympton Street today when the CRIMSON baseball nine adjourns its journalistic endeavors to open serious practice for Saturday's game with the editors of the Daily Princetonian on Soldiers Field. It has been decided that the practice will be secret but its location is as yet unsettled, due to the difficulty of discovering a handy spot where absolute secrecy and silence are inherent...