Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Story. Gloria Swanson's latest contains only a mild amount of drama but a good deal of Gloria Swanson and will therefore automatically acquire a million or more dollars. Mary Robert Rinehart wrote this one on the sound old theme of the Princess who loved the commoner. Against a purple background of mustachios and gold lace, Miss Swanson again demonstrates that she is quite properly one of the greater figures in the current cinema...
...this country, to those who wish to see honesty in government and who wish a restoration of a Government of justice and courage, that they have in this election, as reasonable men, no cause to vote any ticket other than of the Democratic Party." He then returned to the theme of Republican corruption and the tariff, of which he said: "It costs the State of Kansas alone $66 million annually in the additional price the people of this state are compelled to pay for the things they buy." At Kansas City. After speaking at Topeka, John W. Davis went...
General advice to the new men was the theme of the speeches. Dr. Perry emphasized the evil of procrastination, the importance of the intellectual side of college life, and the importance of getting a religious education. "The first thing you must get if you're going to get anything out of college is the intellectual reaction you receive from hard work," Dr. Perry said. "The most essential thing for you is to start in at once and not put off until the critical time has passed. You all think that from now until mid-years you will do well...
Already one play has lived and died in an effort to retell the general narrative theme of Abie's Irish Rose. Reports from distant parts indicate that the producers of this uncannily successful product will spend much money through the season exhorting the population to beware of imitations...
...first to speak was Sir Valentine Chirol, onetime foreign Editor of The London Times and Royal Commissioner on Indian Public Service. His theme was The Reawakening of the Orient. Said he: " Never before has the white man stressed the color bar as he does today ? never before has the Orient denied his claim to racial superiority as it does today. . . . Hostility to all foreigners has never been so deliberately and insolently displayed as it is today...