Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan for Armenian independence, that it does not guarantee protection to Christians and non-Moslems in Turkey,? that it fails to provide recognition by Turkey of the U. S. nationality of onetime Turkish subjects...
...although its originator has joined the immortals. And there is the Hearst school of journalism, the Herrin school of gun-toting, the Lardner school of bon-mots--schools innumerable. The latest addition to the ranks would appear to be the academy of Edna St. Vincent Millay; at least Edmund Wilson in the Nation, has named Miss Millay as the muse of Dorothy Parker, who has just emerged from the aureate glow of the Algonquin Round Table with a book of poems...
Undoubtedly Miss Parker has read Miss Millay and in all probability she has admired her. But to class her work as one of the Millay school is to deny her the elusive fire of originality. Mr. Wilson might just as well said that Miss Parker was of the Petrarch school, since her sonnet form bears resemblances to his. To condemn a lady who pens admirable hymns of hate to any one school is dogmatic especially when that lady can write a touching sonnet concerning a maid standing waiting at the gate and concluding with the illuminating statement that...
...colossal husband in this case is Bainbridge Colby, Manhattan lawyer. In fact, history might have neglected Mr. Colby, had he not been needed by certain bigwigs. Mark Twain used him as a lawyer; Theodore Roosevelt needed him as Presidential booster in 1912; Woodrow Wilson made him Secretary of State for the final year, after two others had been tried and found disagreeable. Perhaps Mr. Colby used to say to his wife: "Now if I had been President Wilson...
...actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms...