Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better said than countless others have said them. In other words, "Caprice" while an amusing play is one which falls considerably short of being worthy stuff either as parlor comedy or as straight social problem drama...
...Colorado College last week, all formal social activities except the Junior Promenade were suspended because of student drinking...
Subscriber Brandon's impressions are entirely incorrect. Many a Jew, many a Protestant, at least one Agnostic, many a Social Registerite belongs to Tammany, of which Members Horatio Seymour (1868), Samuel J. Tilden (1876) ran for President on the Democratic ticket...
...Copyist Alceo annoys the Metropolitan much less than Manhattan Critic Walter Pach, who recently published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
...these enterprises are connected with Wall Street. Biddle, along with social register companions, was accused only a fortnight ago of sharing with Mayor Walker a plot to convert the dismal restaurant which now sits like a spider, webbed with paths, at the centre of Central Park, into a civic banquet hall, thus encouraging patronage and improving the circumstances of the waiters who are employed there by the present lessee, Theatrical Zitell...