Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has furnished the university with many escapes from the academic world. It has led us from Wild West Nebraska to Central Asia, from the most backward part of Mexico to the most advanced section of Hollywood. Except for a musical comedy, its more recent productions have been off-center to the border of insanity; the tortured hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest...
There are two specimens of the rare Schomburgk's deer, one a world record. The home of this deer is still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
...Most people know that Pulaski was a good soldier and an able general," said Count Pulaski, "but few know that he was one of the first men in the world to conceive of the idea of republicanism...
...Coward will open "Bitter-Sweet" in New York City the first week of November. Then he will travel around the world until next May when he expects to return to New York to play in a new production...
...varieties of organization, the differences of interest; all these seem to me to make the plan seem to be nothing further than a high conception, not to be carried out definitely until some period in the far distant future. It is only a beautiful ideal towards which the world can progress; for the tremendous difficulties, cultural, religious, and historical, seem too great to be overcome during the present...