Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well conceived and executed as it is. "The Show-Off" is noteworthy more as a single character than as a play. Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is untruthful enough, jaunty enough, boastful enough, ignorant enough--"Stick-transit Gloria Monday"--objectionable enough and well-meaning enough to carry any play to distinction. Louis John Bartels makes the most of his opportunities. You remember Percy and Ferdy, the Hallroom Boys. Well, the show-off is both of them and all the rest of their ilk rolled into...
...machine and vending business in which it was placed under the terms of Artemus Ward's will, filed last March, in which the late Artemus Ward bequeathed to Harvard the business of Artemus Ward Inc. The advertising company, which controls the merchandising and newsstand privileges of the Inter borough Transit Company, has recently been purchased by Barron G. Collier...
Robert Ridgway: A mighty engineer who controls the transit of a huge metropolis, and has built tunnel and aqueduct under deep rivers...
...necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden suburbs, and an efficient rapid transit system...
...League of the Americas (not unlike the League of Nations), the outlawing of wars of conquest, enforcement of peaceful solutions of all disputes, a "Pan-American Court of Justice," extension of the Monroe Doctrine, freedom of transit, regulation of immigration, rules for treaty-making−such were the proposals made, last week, to Pan-America in 30 conventions for the codification of American international...