Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some Adventures in Nudity The Story. John Webster, small-town manufacturer of second-rate washing-machines, falls in love with his stenographer and runs away with her. He leaves behind him a bovine, 17-year-old daughter and a stodgy wife, who immediately poisons herself. He has an unaccountable tendency to take off his clothes, with or without provocation. He introduces the subject of his prospective elopement by parading up and down his room, characteristically naked, before a picture of the Virgin, until his wife and daughter come in, find him, and think him crazy. He is inclined to agree...
...Significance. With this aggressively commonplace plot and in a style painstakingly simple, Mr. Anderson attempts the well-nigh impossible. His object is to show, through John Webster's experience, the mystery and miracle of the commonplace seen with the vision of inspiration. John Webster's love gives the world new aspects. The fronts of houses seem to have fallen away, and he can see the lives of the people in them. Every episode, every object, takes on for him a fresh beauty. He tries to give some of this sudden light to his wife and daughter...
...Hasty Pudding Club will hold a dance in the Club House on March 16. All the dancers will wear rustic costumes, and Bert Lowe will furnish the music. The patronesses for the dance are: Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. E. S. Webster, Mrs. George E. Dempsey, Mrs. Joseph Seabury, Mrs. W. R. Flint, and Mrs. B. H. Cogan...
...rules of the game have been drawn up by Mr. Webster. He puts them down under the head of dancing: "To perform a regulated series of movements, commonly to music; to trip, to glide, or leap rhythmically. To move nimbly or merrily.--The complicated aerial movements of a swarm of some insects, as midgets, gnats, or certain butterflies." As applied tonight, the last section will be hardly necessary, but aside from that a definition of the movements allowed is important, especially the clause regarding tripping...
...Pound Class. Webster (P) defeated Captain H. J. Freedman 23 by decision...