Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though his condition was not serious, last week, he sent Ishbel to substitute at several Manhattan gatherings which were to have been addressed by the onetime Premier. Miss MacDonald, sensibly clad, read out greetings from her father from platforms...
Nineteen German businessmen descended the gangplank of the S. S. Deutschland in Manhattan, at their head Friedrich Ebert Jr., successful journalist, son of the late famed first President of Germany. Serious, purposeful, the delegation set out to tour U. S. industrial centres. Of President Ebert's three sons, Ebert Jr. alone survives. His brothers were killed during...
...Eaton then recognized that "the Harvard Dramatic Club, since the official abandonment by Harvard University of courses in practical theatre art, seems to me to have an important function, the function of keeping alive or of awakening among students of the rising generation, a serious interest in the problems of the contemporary theatre, and of giving them, also, an opportunity to practice the arts of the theatre...
...until 1876, however, that the presentation of a Greek tragedy was given any serious consideration in America. The discussion arose chiefly at Harvard, but the difficulties to be surmounted were so great that the project fell through...
...haze of legal phraseology and latinized please which hung over the Superior Criminal Court of East Cambridge yesterday the average uninformed layman can discern three points: one, the court's decision, is a fact and therefore serious; the second is an analogy and consequently a bit whimsical; the third might be called subtle and is certainly rich in allusions...