Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book with all those excellent portraits you use on covers, with a cryptic biographical sketch in TIME's style? You have the finest charcoal portraitists in America in Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf. You have already many biographical sketches of notable subjects. Such a book is necessary to every library. Get the idea? Send me, C. O. D., the first one. MYNATT...
...committee has also decided to revise the social service pamphlet issued annually by the Phillips Brooks House to make it more into the form of a text book for novice social workers. The pamphlet will contain a thumbnail sketch of the work and aim of each house and also a bibliography of books helpful to social workers. In the latter connection the library at the Phillips Brooks House will be increased to include a special social service department...
Married. Joe Howard, actor who long shared with De Wolfe Hopper and the late Nat Goodwin the honor of being the husband of five wives, to a sixth, Miss Anita Case, now appearing in a vaudeville sketch with him; in Milwaukee...
...Oxford tutors were described with kindly justice by Dr. Brinton. His rapid and clear survey gives a vivid picture of Oxford life and it is a considerable achievement to have simplified without distortion the mass of inconsistencies and inefficiencies which is Oxford. I can only recall one neater sketch. It is this...
...Baby Blue" is primarily a comedy with music, not a musical comedy, and it very much resembles "Mr. Battling Butler" in the way it is bound together. Transferred identity is the original theme, but it becomes mixed with a correspondence school love affair and a murder sketch. The tone of semi-burlesque which pervades the last act is exemplified by such lines as "a day of reckoning is coming", and "curse you, Roger Lavenderlegs", uttered with tremendous vehemence. The plot succumbs more and more to the demands of comedy, but after all, why shouldn...