Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...background upon the events surrounding the several active commands which he has held in the Swedish Navy. Considering the passion for seafaring which animates so many Scandinavians, the Prince's latest choice of subject matter is considered as well advised, if not so sensational, as his negroid theme of two years...
...Hunter, whose engaging, undergraduate manner and appearance belie his high attainments as an artist, stopped long enough to answer a question as to his opinion of how the play-goers of this country will accept a theme as thoroughly English as that of the "public school...
...Seventh Heaven" is a play of Parisian low life, the love story of a sewer rat and a girl "who has not been good." Its theme is the philosophic observation of Boul' ("short for boulevard") the good-hearted and light-fingered cabman: "We sinners make the best saints." From the depths of sewer and street in the first act, its hero and heroine rise to Heaven in the second and third, their paradise the dingy seventh floor room of a tenement...
...conflict between the embittered adherence to this cause and loyalty to the nobler humane ideals of medicine is the burning theme. The right to strike seems to them indubitable until they are faced with the imminent possibility of allowing Ben Ormerod's wife to die unattended in childbirth...
...announcement made last night to the members of the Class of 1929 at their meeting in the Union to the effect that one of the early theme topics assigned to them in English A would be "My Reactions--Favorable and Unfavorable--to my Reception at Harvard," indicates an interesting innovation in teaching the young idea how to do its shooting at Harvard...