Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university has been flashed before us. The club system has been given Hector's ride around the walls. They're still there and they'll probable remain there for aught our diagnosing and I don't know as I know why they shouldn't. If there's one thing that can and will change them it's the same evolution of things that's causing all the worry...
Billy B. Van is the salvation of "The Passing Show of 1924", now playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...
...country has suddenly become populated with the relations: fourty-nine cousins, no less, a niece, and, strangest of all, a daughter. The latter, one Ida Blankenburg, was supposedly the offspring of a dim and juvenile marriage in far off Texas which nobody thought much about at the time, such things being quite customary. Evidently Miss. Blankenburg almost forgot the matter herself, what with steer raising and one thing and another. After all its hard to remember off-hand whom one's father married, and when, and why. In the same class is Carlotta Crabtree whom Attorney J. J. Hoy testifies...
...robbin thkip-th and thing-th among the grathth...
Robert Benchley's biting article in the last edition of "Life" on the depravity of audiences is a sincere and true a thing as has been written by a dramatic critic for some time. In saying "that the drama of today is not so much an insult to American womanhood as American womanhood is an insult to the drama of today", he has fitly summed up the deplorable intelligence of American audiences today. Just as there are shows which aim to be suggestive, there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted...