Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young love, it is usually portrayed as composed of cynical and dyspeptic individuals ever on the alert to quench the enthusiastic fervor of youth. If an occasional sympathetic portrayal is presented, as in "Old English" the hero is made out to be scapegrace of one sort or another whom one loves partly in spite of and partly because of his faults. Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, the leading present-day Spanish play-wrights, have made a real addition to the literature of the stage in "A Hundred Years Old" (El Centenario)' for this play, now being shown at the Majestic...
...developments at Ann Arbor Saturday. Harvard made a lasting impression, and its magnificent comeback augurs well for the future. There are two stiff tests which is just beginning to show its latent offensive possibilities, and of course the 13-13 the between Yale and Maryland does not offer any sort of an accurate gauge of the Elis at the Harvard Stadium a week from next Saturday...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that...
Hero George was born in the worst sort of airless middle class Victorian household. His parents, blindfolded and swaddled by sexual ignorance and sentimentalism, had tumbled into marriage and lived at leisure in shabby gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went...