Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion of Alice Brady, star of "Lady Alone", plays dealing with Lesbianism and Homosexuality or similar distasteful subjects have no place on the American Stage. They treat of matters not only unpleasant in themselves, but made considerably more so by the crude manner in which the playwrights who attempt this type of sensationalism handle them. In addition to which, Miss Brady feels that the topics are in most cases new to the audiences and do anything but stimulate their minds in the proper direction...
...Agents' letters, enclosing the Fund subscription blanks, will have been mailed to approximately 25,000 alumni of the College and to the members of the present Senior Class; together with a special letter to all former members of the various Graduate Schools. This is the same date on which similar letters of the Fund were mailed last year. The Fund is making every effort to enroll this year not only those men who subscribed in 1926 but a large proportion of the alumni that have yet to subscribe their first dollar...
...such realizations of pretty philosophies, New Lanark was far from perfect. It was, nevertheless, an improvement and a guide toward further effort. Due partly to petty jealousies and partly to his own intractable character Owen eventually gave up all interest in New Lanark. He attempted to form a similar colony at New Harmony, Indians but it failed completely, one obvious reason being the inharmonious state of the American frontier...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce gave a similar dinner to all foreign students several years ago, but never repeated it. The dinner this year is given with the hope that it may become an annual affair...
...activated by patriotic motive and an interest in foreign peoles which belong to their educational tradition. The Tours will take three months and by spending a considerable time in one country the traveler will get beneath the surface over which tourists usually skim. In visiting additionally a country of similar, and one of different culture, he will be verifying his general impressions of European life...