Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Sky (Feitelson) shows the influence of Giotto. Nude figures dream in a coppice, while the sun, drowning in the gulfs of the West, floods them with moted yellow light, tarnishing the trees with gold, melting to rose the ivory of their bodies...
...revived Rosmersholm was dull. This dullness was possibly due to the insufficiency of Margaret Wycherly in the part of Rebecca West, and to the propaganda which was Ibsen's material. He had seen in his native land political dissension which was ripping the fabric of its history. He protested against this in a play...
...characters seem the metaphorical figures of the essay rather than the working, laughing children of life. His hero is an indecisive creature who turns radical in politics, finds that radicalism has caused his wife to commit suicide, finally follows suit. Rebecca West is the woman he loves, the woman who has sowed in his wife's mind the seeds of her decision to die. Rebecca jumps into the mill-race with the hero...
...move into a larger location at Fulton and Dutch Sts., where it has remained for the past 70 years. Now continued expansion has again compelled a move, and this time the firm's executive offices and departments of its Manhattan branch will shift several miles uptown to West 47th St. near Fifth Avenue...
...while not a few states require by law that the King James Bible with its account of the creation in the Book of Genesis shall be read an taught. Similarly appalling is the list of states where anti-evolutionist laws like that of Tennessee are pending. Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas, California, lowa, Illiginia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon, and Arizona...