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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then followed some months of uneventful labor, the assembling of the organization which should handle the award, the determination of its exact conditions, the receipt of the aspiring plans (22,000 odd) their perusal by the jury of award, the announcement of the winning plan (its author remained unknown), the beginning of a great popular referendum...
...skilled matador, there is not only wealth (in 1902, Mazzantini and his men cleared some $40,000 in three months in Mexico), but public honor and license such as is unknown even by ball-players and pugilists in the U. S. Wherever they go in public, they are known by their gorgeous dress (black broadcloth, scarlet sash, white hose, shiny pumps). It is an honor to sit with them in cafes, to speak with them or be owed money by them. After a fight, the town they are in is theirs? wine and women complete...
CONSCIENCE-Prominent for the poignant performance of the hitherto unknown Lillian Foster. Returning from jail, the husband finds his wife reduced, through poverty, to prostitution...
...Magi before Herod, and the adoration of the shepherds and the Magi. The author of the play is unknown, for it was handed down from mouth to mouth for over a hundred years before being written down late in the fourteenth century...
...them more, however, was the statement that The Woman's Home Companion was publishing serially a new book about Jesus, written by "a business man" who had had certain vivid spiritual experiences. "A business man," said the blurb, and curiosity was at once aroused. A new man, evidently; someone unknown. Possibly he had a new point of view. This sounded fresh and worth looking into...