Word: walling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scenery in "Fame and the Poet", however, will stand a few adverse comments. It had no definite character; it added nothing to the picture. There were no specific faults, except the wall cloth in rear of the altar, but the totality seemed rather far from the spirit of the play. The view over the roof tops from the Poet's window was extremely good, and in some measure atoned for the colorless interior. The lighting was good and well managed...
There will be 224 persons in the white "H" and 387 in the crimson background, which includes the two sections from the cement wall at the top to the similar wall at the bottom...
...partizan spite and vindictive hatred of Woodrow Wilson and all his works, the Republican side of the Senate succeeded in so emasculating the Treaty that the Democrats could in honor do nothing except vote for its rejection. The efforts at compromise made by the Administration forces met a stone wall of resistance. Senator Edge, Republican, of New Jersey, said to the Democrats: "Here is the treaty. Take it or leave it!" The rights and privileges of the United States could have been adequately safeguarded by mild interpretative resolutions; the Republicans wrote in amendment after amendment--labelled "reservations"--with the avowed...
...public holds the remedy for this alarming situation. If the people throw their support on the side of the labor leaders, rebellious labor will see that it is battering against a stone wall. Many people consider that labor unions are not a good institution, yet a man must be deaf and blind not to realize that organized labor, under the leadership of a conservative American Federation of Labor, is far preferable to outlaw, radical labor drifting rapidly toward Anarehy and I. W. Weism...
...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...