Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crystallizing and tremendously promising phase of theatrical endeavor. The variously talented groups who for the past few summers have been turning New England barns into lime-lit slices of Broadway and the Village are now moving into serious winter activity in the cities. On the rising crest of this wave the Associated Actors Theatre has moved into the Peabody Playhouse to offer Boston a three week run of hitherto little known plays...
...parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks Home. Nonetheless their numbers and zeal served notice that the Townsend dream still lived, warned Congressmen to expect another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings, has built a rich & potent political organization which fills Eastern politicians with foreboding, Western politicians with genuine alarm...
...Negro situation in the American South or the treatment of the Japanese in California. ... I shall go right on being pro-Jewish and for that reason I have a warning for American Jewry. There is grave danger in this Olympic agitation. . . . We are almost certain to have a wave of anti-Semitism among those who never before gave it a thought and who may consider that 5,000,000 Jews in this country are using 120,000,000 Americans to pull their chestnuts out of the fire...
Some perturbation among other janitors is also apparent. Fearing that a wave of anti-janitor feeling has started at Harvard, a representative commented, "If it were a Dartmouth man, you could understand it but a Harvard...
...Joseph M. Dawson of Waco, Tex.: I object to the President's lead in moral liberalism which has inundated the country in debauching liquor and brought on a high wave of gambling and laxity in home life...