Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Based on the greediness of mankind, the plot of the play is woven about a rich man's bequest to a group of avaricious relatives, and provides many amusing and interesting situations. The Liberal Club has bought out the house for the second Boston performance of this play and is now selling tickets at the Harvard Cooperative Society with no advance in prices...
...provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...
...skilfully do Fay Bainter and John Halliday play their parts that the anger, folly, fatigue, cowardice, love, lies and bravery of Maurice and Valerie Theulot burn brightly, with unsteady continuity, like candles in a room of woven draughts...
...Wales & Party approached, last week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
...Government House Dr. Irigoyen was greeted by the man whom he placed there in 1922 when his own first term expired, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear. Last week retiring President de Alvear surrendered his baton to Dr. Irigoyen and then the Presidential band of colors, into which is woven the figure of the rising...