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...additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound...
...differ from men, what they may hope to accomplish; these are the points discussed. Several points are settled, among them this: "We have constantly seen throughout this history . . . that the right to work is absolutely essential to the happiness of women. . . ." If the title is in a sense a slur, a compliment to femininity is the distinguished style and brilliant perception of Author John Langdon-Davies, previously noted for The New Age of Faith...
...life to seek a rite without which he had always maintained full church membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established and regular habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect him to do?interrupt the preacher and offer to lead the congregation aloud in prayer...
...moving constantly, thus detracting from my own effectiveness as well as that of others. This overacting, as compared with the repressed playing which is necesary in the usual modern stage productions, charactizes the differences between amateur and professional work. By this, however, I do not mean to cast a slur on college training, for I can say without reservations that any position I may hold in dramatic circles is due to my work under Professor I. L. Winter '86. For training in acting, voice technique, public speaking, and interpretation of literature, he is unrivaled...
...TIME, Jan. 10, you. . . slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...