Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finished its annual convention in New York, was the passage of a resolution, by a close vote, recommending that the President parole I. W. W.'s and other political prisoners provided they affirm their allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. The resolution was offered by Archibald Stevenson, considered to be the most indefatigable prosecutor of the Reds in America, and the brains of the Lusk Committee, which published three years ago a seven volume report on Red activities throughout the country. The action of the Federation is a complete reversal of attitude, since it has been...
...Oxford University team which sails this week to compete in the Penn Relays at Philadelphia on April 27 and 28 included W. E. Stevenson, formerly of Princeton. Stevenson will run the half mile in the distance medley...
...STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE-John E. Kellerd is appearing in special matinees of a new dramatization of the familiar story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Emphasis is placed less on the romantic phase of the situation and more on the mental struggle of Dr. Jekyll than in the former dramatization. It is maintained that Stevenson's chief object was to emphasize the moral effect of the habit of evil on a character normally good...
Honor where honor is due--and no one will deny it to these loyal nurses. The literature of the South, from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" down, is full of reverence for their services. Famous nurses are plentiful in literary annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland...
...suggested. The spell of the tropics must be played up to its full value. Ukuleles and guitars must be brought out in force to greet the conquering heroine; the weatherman must be prevailed upon to remind her of torrid suns, and perhaps that subtle nostalgia that worked on Ganguin. Stevenson, and the other South Seamen will call her back to Papua for peaceful sovereignty where she has already conquered...