Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That does not matter. England will pay her debts because that is the just and honorable thing for a nation to do. If other nations do not pay their War debts it will make no difference to England. We shall go on paying...
...police made no effort to interfere with the posters, which attracted large crowds and provoked the comment that a change might be a good thing. But no one could answer the question : Who is this Louis...
This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
There is one thing which the Theatre Guild can be trusted to do well; that is, casting. Jacob Ben Ami and Winifred Lenihan (who did well as Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare) offer two performances as fine as anything in the current Theatre. Masterly interpretations in minor parts are supplied by favorite players of many Guild productions, viz.: Dudley Digges, Henry Travers, Helen Westley...
Speaking before the Columbia School of Journalism last week, Dr. Williams said in substance that it is a good thing that news-gathering is becoming more and more like the manufacture of Ford cars, standardized, uniform. " The day of ' beats ' has about disappeared, and today virtually every newspaper prints simultaneously accounts of happenings of national interest. Although Washington despatches may vary according to the way the correspondents see them, the basic facts remain the same. . . . When Secretary Mellon gave out his policy on tax reduction, it went to all the newspapers at the same time...