Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandal disclosures in Washington. "The encouraging thing at present is the evidence of a well-nigh complete return to normal methods of action, and a sane public opinion...
Plot is Almost the Whole Thing...
...intend to spoil "Mistress Wilding" by retailing the plot, which as we have implied, is little less than the whole thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster...
...second "Visitation Week" since the uniting of the Harvard Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary in 1922 ended last night with the Reverend Professor Jacks' lecture on "The Challenge of Death." "My experience at Harvard University this week is a thing to be treasured during the remainder of my life," said Dr. Jacks, acknowledging an ovation after his lecture...
...doubtless rests upon the results of its present program. By initiating a strange foreign policy that has been characteristic recent governments Premier MacDonald has appeased at British longing which Mr. Golding declares has gone unsatisfied since the early nineteenth century. There remains the vexing problem of unemployment. If any thing is likely to wreck the immediate political fortunes of the present ministry it will be popular impatience with an unavoidable slowness in reshaping the economic forces now depressing English industry...