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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informed contempt from professors and students of the drama than its stage. The years from Sheridan to Robertson have been considered the absolute zero of the drama itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots, and stamps his way quickly through the poetic drama and the Shakesperian revivals, which alone illuminate the "void, or chaos, of Georgian and early Victorian drama," leaving in his train disparagement and apology until he comes to the renaissance of realism in the work of Robertson...

Author: By R. G. Noyes, | Title: Extremely Palatable Reading | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...became the first native Premier of Egypt in 1924. He resigned (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) upon the exaction by Britain from the Egyptian Government of a £500,000 ($2,300,000) "fine" and other humiliating concessions because of the asassination by seven Egyptian students of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Jagged Facts | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...department stores, noted that practically no business was done before 9:30 a. m., although clerks went on duty an hour before. Last week he decided on a business innovation?to open at 9:30 a. m., to close at 5:30 p. m. His employes will work only seven hours daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under steady stroking to win, by three and a half lengths from Princeton, by seven lengths from Columbia, the Child's Cup for the third successive year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stroking Steadily | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...newcomer in the Class B ranks, finished first while six records were being battered in this group. The record breaking activities were carried on despite the cold cross wind which swept Soldiers Field during the entire meet. Brockton captured the class A taxi with a total of 24 points, seven points ahead of Dorchester, the dark horse of the meeting. The winner of the class B division scored 22 points, closely followed by Fairhaven High with a total of 19 1-2. Quincy, last year's winner in the junior class, landed in fourth position with 12 points just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROCKTON, LEADS AS TEN MARKS FALL IN STADIUM | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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