Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive order which reinstated Mrs. Bessie H. Smith in the Federal service in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was signed: "For charity. Calvin Coolidge." Twenty years ago, Mrs. Smith worked for the Government. Then she married. Recently her husband died, and she asked for her old job to support her four children and her mother...
Among many who support the theory of English opera by native singers is Mary Garden of the Chicago Opera. Several months ago, she journeyed to Rochester to sing with the students in a presentation of Carmen. While they used the English libretto, she sang the role in French, "just to do something to indicate her sympathy...
This, too, was seen in Boston earlier in the year. Helen Hayes gives a superb performance, and Kenneth McKenna, supporting her, gives a poor one. She is so fine, however, that she needs no support. The play represents Barrie at his best...
Another field, Economics, which with a percentage of 15.4 in 1924 was second only to English in popularity, lost some of its support...
...which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash...