Word: vis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret: Josef Vis-sar-ee-o'-nuh-vich Zoo-gaash...
...gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...
...appeared that Producer Carroll would soon have the opportunity of meeting Warden Snook once more. Owing to alleged "privileges" tendered to distinguished sojourners at Atlanta penitentiary, an investigation was being started last week, by a congressional committee. It was known that delectable Dorothy Knapp had vis ited Producer Carroll during his duress and that she had lunched at the home of Warden Snook. Both Producer Carroll and Performer Knapp would probably be called as witnesses in the forthcoming investigation...
Governor-General Willingdon and Vis-countess Willingdon have invited the entire club to a tea to be held at Government House on Wednesday. The concert will be held in the Russell Theatre that evening under a distinguished patronage...
...characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated a vital drama, had there been any. "The trend of theatrical vitality is, in the main, good...