Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch of the medieval is being transplanted to the Cambridge bank of the Charles river, where on Memorial Drive just above Boylston street, the Society of St. John the Evangelist is building its new monastic mission house. Eventually this new building will be the mother house of the society in this country, superceding the quarters now occupied at 33 Bowdoin street, Boston. At present, however, none of the new plant is in use except the little chapel, St. Francis' House, which for over a year has been used as the order's chapel for the University...
...drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour and delight" of Broadway, and he regards its shows and performances as an "endless adventure...
...Thayer, Mo., one Otto Luchsinger pushed through a crowd, entered a burning building, explained to those who would have restrained him that fire could not touch him because of his "faith in God," died of his burns a short time later...
...first act is disappointing, largely because everyone except Mr. Gordon, who never fails to give just the right touch, insists upon speaking in unconvincingly melodramatic tones upon undeniably commonplace subjects. Thereafter the action becomes more brisk, and the melodramatic blah-blah, if not absent, is at least inconspicuous. The appearance of Miss Annette Margules as Tondeleyo, the white man's alternative, revives the waning interest of the audience no less than it does the lonely Englishmen. She shares with Mr. Gordon the acting honors of the evening...
...field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used merely to give light for night digging...