Word: torches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations ago the famous weekly carried the cartoons of Nast, which kindled the flame of public wrath and eventually consumed the corrupt tinder of the Tweed Ring. The New York Times was high priest over that burnt offering to the god of politics. But Harper's Weekly held the torch. Today a ghost of journalism has returned, announcing itself as the New Harper's Weekly, an " International Illustrated Journal...
...Alarm. Truly life according to the movies is real and very earnest. The little girl involved in these adventures is orphaned, loved by a fireman, hated by a stockbroker, locked in the broker's office safe while the office building burns, saved by the fireman with an acetylene torch...
...though the uneasy head of King Tut would be emblazoned on our banners of amusement. But the Russians were on the scene, well up in their lines, on the scene and shrewdly shepherded, and consequently the Egyptian did fairly well in dress fabrics, but was unable to snatch the torch of drama from Stanislavski. Yet there is not that maudlin excitement over the pilgrims from Petrograd which prevailed a year ago. If you casually remark to your laundrywoman that Stanislavski and Balieff will be back on Broadway her enthusiasm will scarcely unhinge her to the point of crowning herself with...
Stanley Baldwin: Our World, U. S. monthly publication, whose function it is 'to bear the torch of understanding in a world that is confused,' referred to me as Sir Stanley Baldwin...
...program for tonight's concert follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director", Bigelow Overture to "The Calm of tab Cailf", Bagded Walts, "Imperial", Strauss Ballet Egyptien, Luigini Allegro non troppo Allegretto Andanto sostanuto Andante expressive allegro Serenade, Drigo Three Dances from, "Henry VIII", German Morris Dance Shepherd Dance Torch Dance Hindu Chant from Sadka, Rimsky Korsakow Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba", Gounod