Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy and intricate first novel...
...being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think the banks meant the abrogation of the right to strike. This week he is speaking on a familiar theme. For the eighth or ninth time he delivered his famous philippic against Soviet Russia at the National Civic Federation Convention. He has given it at every Labor Convention since the one at Atlantic City in 1919 and, like wine, it improves with...
...history of a tormented and afraid young man who runs away to war, and returns, the victim of his weakness, to find his former sweetheart. For a time the girl supports him, but after much unhappiness he runs away again to join the colors. Mr. Paul has chosen a theme to repel most readers, but admitting the character of his plot, he has infused it with dignity and pathos, without any descent into melodrama...
...program follows: Theme and Variations in A minor for Pianoforte, Edward Royce '07 Played by the Composer Romance in E for Cello and Pianoforte, Edward Ballantine '07 G. A. Brown '25 and the Composer The Buddha of the Lotus Pond, Charles Repper '10 "Above the Lotus pond The image of the great Buddha stands His gaze fixed far beyond". Played by the Composer Juba Dance, Natheniel Dett W. T. Ames '24 Gray Day, P. G. Clapp '09. Silhouette, C. K. McKinley '17 D. T. Gammons '18 and G. W. Woodworth '24 Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass...
...graces of song of which the child had deprived her. One day, when the girl was half grown, an angry maid taunted her bitterly with having caused the ruin of her mother's voice. Still mother and daughter could not bring themselves to speak of the theme that had been hidden, and the woman died with the silence unbroken. The daughter became a singer, but did not follow her art for more than a little while. She renounced it for a home and family...