Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since Alexander Hamilton" is a phrase which may well jumble the dreams of Andrew William Mellon. What the sidewalks of New York were to Alfred Emanuel Smith. "... since Alexander Hamilton" is to Mr. Mellon. He almost never dines publicly without it. His perpetual, though flattering, subordination to Hamilton arises, of course, from the fact that Hamilton was a political philosopher as well as a financier. Last week Secretary Mellon narrowed the gap between himself and Hamilton by laying down certain principles of government: Responsibility. "A stable government must rest upon the confidence of its people. High administrative offices must...
Serena Blandish. It is the conviction of stupid people that only that which is solemn may be profound and that to seem satirical is to be unsympathetic. Partly for this reason, Serena Blandish will doubtless be misappreciated and en joyed by the well-decorated people who will go to see it. Its inadequacy as a play, however, is not caused by a fallacy in attitude...
...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
...between tutor and student. In addi- tion to this, however, the tutor should maintain a sort of open house, on certain evenings at which times a student would always feel at liberty to visit. During his residence in Stoughton Hall, Peterkin tried this system, and found it worked very well. Many students paid regular visits, while others dropped in casually for a chat after the theatre, or to pay a short evening call...
...immediate purpose of the expedition is to make a medical survey of the population of a section of that country. The region selected is about Chichen Itza where is situated a famous sacrificial well of the aborigines. There are some villages of mixed population in the neighborhood, and others of practically pure-blooded Maya Indians. Little is known of the diseases of these people, and it is hoped that this study may throw light upon the causes of the complete collapse of the Maya civilization which followed the Spanish conquest...