Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright, he manipulates his customary close-ups and fadeouts of existence, real and unreal, seeming and serious. A mystic, a believer in man's supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild west show, as full of metaphysics as a German university, and more exciting than any combination...
Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
...speaker's platform is obliterated by the lecturer who gets up to speak. He had some failures. He needed money (he had always spent copiously what he earned) and tried to get it in vaudeville, in the cinema. When he acted in George M. Cohan's The Tavern in 1920 people remembered what a good actor he could be. Last autumn he appeared in the Theatre Guild's production, Juarez and Maximilian. The week before he died he was headlined in a one-act play, Kidnapped, at the Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn...
...Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary of P. B. K.'s united chapters, presented the building to William & Mary College and all soon swarmed through the three-arched brick edifice, admired the fireproof chamber for P. B. K. memorabilia (a replica of the famed Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where P. B. K. was founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia...
...case of a club resisting the college did not occur while Princeton was in its infancy probably because of Regulation Number Ten. This reads, "No student shall go to a tavern, beer house or any place of such kind for the purpose of entertainment or amusement without permission from some college officer...