Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...productions, in the order in which they will be presented this evening, follow: "The Intruder" The Grandfather, Conrad Sallinger '23 The Uncle, R. C. Burrell '24 The Father, M. A. Best '23 Ursula, Kathleen Middleton Genevieve, Gertrude Norris Gertrude, Joyce Brennan A Servant, June Wellman A Sister of Mercy, Louise Daly "Phipps" Phipps, J. J. Collier '23 Lady Fanny, Janet Fairbank Sir Gerald, W. C. Jackson...
This year the Dramatic Club is continuing its policy of producing foreign plays not likely to be seen in the United States. But the club is again avoiding the conventional by not going to Europe or the Orient for its material, but to South America. Our sister-continent, especially Argentina, its most progressive state, is rapidly passing the formative period and settling down into a stage of civilization in which the fine arts and literature find fertile soil. These dramas of the Argentine are among the first South American products of the new movement that have reached us. They show...
...rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face...
...often that the United States has a chance to influence its neighbor beyond the Rio Grande to any great extent. For years conquests, diplomatic overtures, punitive expeditions, and commercial ventures have had equally little effect on either the thoughts or the actions of our sister republic. During the period since the Mexican War, the inhabitants of this tumultuous Spanish-American land, when they have meditated about our relations with them, have said to themselves with a shrug--"gringos--huh", and let it go at that. In spite of our proximity, we have failed surprisingly in all attempts directed toward...
...this naturally leads me to Zionism, I am touching upon a phase of Jewish life which is no longer a problem, no longer a subject of discussion, but an accomplished fact, though some people do no seem to realize it. Not long ago, a professor of a sister university, quite an eminent authority in his own field, published an article in the Atlantic Monthly, in which he questioned the Jewish historical rights to Palestine. But his present attempt to unmake the old history of the Jews is as whimsical as his earlier attempt to make a new history...