Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great trouble with this place is that it is all talk, talk; nobody is willing to listen. No sooner had I finished giving the Dean my beliefs than he attempted to answer them. Of course, the only dignified thing for me to do was to walk out of the room, which I did, leaving him quite dumbfounded...
Considerable interest has been shown in New York over the coming trip of the Dramatic Club, with Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" and Andreyev's "The Life of Man" as well-balanced repertory. The Dramatic Club is doing an unusual thing in taking two of its greatest successes to New York during the Spring Vacation. It is doing an unusual thing as a visiting amateur organization in playing a week in a regular theatre, offering as it will "The Life of Man" for the first half of the week of the fifteenth, and "Beranger" for the second half. The experiment...
...brief recorded years human na- ture, contrary to General Edwards, is the only thing that has changed. The frame of mind that alarms him of itself proves this. Our young men and women do well in exercising themselves to find out how the peace of this nation and of all nations may honorably be maintained. It is a noble pursuit and in the long run far better for this country and the world than the more alluring oratory of war. It is, moreover, founded on courage and hope, while the exhortations of the militarist are those of timidity and despair...
...again at one-thirty will appreciate the greater leisure for the pleasures of the "convivial board". And, after sixty minutes instead of thirty, the mind should be much more refreshed and better fitted for attentive listening. Even if the abolishment of sleeping in afternoon classes is the only thing accomplished, this move will have done something towards efficiency...
This is the introductory paragraph of a New York Tribune editorial: "If passengers were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City...