Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, the President Roosevelt has been one of the most popular trans-Atlantic ships of the U. S. Lines. Its transfer to another service could only be justified by the existence of an emergency in U. S. shipping. That such an emergency did exist was the theme, last week, of energetic statements from the U. S. Shipping Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead...
...State Banquet in the Cattete Palace (Brazil's White House), "the noble and elevated" friendship of Brazil and the U. S. was Mr. Hoover's theme. It was the last speech of his tour and the longest...
Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
...Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes...
Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare...