Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their money and who are forced to say farewell to the house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last to die, locked...
...This is the last time that I shall speak upon this theme. In the future I shall make actions do the talking. . . . The fact is that Pan-Germanism is crying out because it sees that in the face of the cold will and systematic tenacity of Fascist Italy its game...
...theme, ostensibly, which provides a possible basis of reunion for his badly shattered party. For it says to Democrats in all sections of the country: "If you cannot agree about prohibition or about any other contentious issue nationally, agree to disagree about it locally. Make this freedom to disagree, and this willingness to revive a healthy local sovereignty, the basis of your actions and the pillar of your strength. You have Jefferson's word that it is sound governmental policy, and your own experience to tell you it is sound common sense...
History dramatized seems to present a different situation, as in the case of the motion picture "Dawn", a British production. The German Government has successfully protested against the release, which deals with the death of Edith Cavell, as an objectionable theme and a misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...
...first issue under its new staff the Lampoon is fortunate in having a strong subject for its theme. The Messers. Blackburn and Company have sunk their teeth into this morsel with appetites appropriate to their journalistic age. The Reading Period is past, but the clouds have not disappeared over the horizon, and the Lampoon staff is concerned with some of the results...