Word: solids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American people, so united in their national pride, have a different standing in the world. Hardly another people is so fit to form a solid foundation of future world-political development...
...that can easily be over-stated. America had a golden opportunity at the end of the War to take part in establishing this Court, but we threw it away. While we were talking and voting for "an association of nations," 48 other states were building this Court on solid foundations...
...Solid Ivory. The sporting appetite of the public is constantly being met with theatrical fodder. Is Zat So? deals with prizefighting, and The Poor Nut with a track meet. The fight and the quarter-mile run are exhibited on the stage. Both are successes. Solid Ivory turns to baseball, and borrows in the process something of the slang sorcery of Ring Lardner...
...Lardner was not actually concerned in the writing of the play, yet the leading character resembles his celebrated Jack Keefe, the conceited, blatant young professional baseballer. If the resemblance had been accurate, Solid Ivory might have been a sensation. As it is, it is simply a fair slang comedy, glorifying the home...
...play is not particularly good. Handicapped by its star, it makes mediocre entertainment. Mr. Blackmer makes the dent a pillow might if fired from a cannon instead of solid shot. The presence of Martha Bryan Allen, loveliest of our younger actresses, is a vast pictorial advantage...